Useful Books

Below you will find some books that may be useful when creating your electronic thesis or dissertation. These books are available from Amazon.com, just click on the book to go directly to it. Amazon usually ships within 2 to 3 days and sells most books at a considerable discount.

Books on PDF and document creation

Books on PDF range from simple creation to advanced document enhancements like movies, forms, and sound.

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Classroom In a Book   

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Bible

Adobe Acrobat 6.0: Getting Professional Results from Your PDFs

Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks : The 150 Best

Adobe Acrobat 6 PDF for Dummies

Adobe Acrobat 7 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Books on Writing Theses and Dissertations

These books will guide you through your thesis or dissertation writing experience.

How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation

Writing the Doctoral Dissertation : A Systematic Approach

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

  Successful Dissertations and Theses

Books on Style

There are many books that deal specifically with writing style. Among those with general applicability are:

The Bedford Handbook : Updated With MLA's 1999 Guidelines

The Chicago Manual of Style

The Elements of Style

Form & Style (11th edition)

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th ed)

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd Ed)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association