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Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Autor Andrew Abbott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2014
Andrew Abbott, a master teacher, has often taught a course on how to acquire research skills and how to use them in library work and on the internet. That course, like this book, has immediate appeal across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. His readers, like his students, are often frustrated by an information world where everything is equally accessible and equally inviting. They hunger for a vision of excellence in research, and for skills and rules that enable them to tell wheat from chaff. Here s the perfect how-to book. Throughout, Abbott argues that the core of library/digital research is not finding things but figuring out what to look for (also, figuring out what to ignore). Reading it will give students (and any researcher) a way into the many activities involved in research, but, more importantly, it will give them a way to manage those activities: Abbott says it s all about project management. The chapters take up the elements of how to do research projects: how to design them, control them, shift them in midstream, decide what to look for, and how to tell good work from junk when you don t know anything about a field, and, as vital as any of the elements, how to turn an amorphous mass of research material into an effective paper or thesis. He brings in real-life examples from his own experiences and those of his students throughout. Along the way, students will learn why it is that good scholars shift back and forth between physical and electronic tools all the time, and they will see how the core skills of researchrigor, discipline, care, and imaginationcan be brought to focus on the ultimate research skill (or intuition ), which consists of knowing, when you have randomly found something, whether or not you ought to have wanted to look for it."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226167787
ISBN-10: 022616778X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 5 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing


Notă biografică

Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He edits the American Journal of Sociology and his books include The System of Professions, Department and Discipline, Chaos of Disciplines, and Time Matters, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

To the Reader

1          Introduction
2          A Library Ethnography
3          Fundamentals
4          The Preliminary Phase
5          Midphase Bibliography
6          Midphase Scanning, Browsing, and Brute Force
7          Reading
8          Midphase Files and Organization
9          Midphase Analysis
10        Midphase Writing
11        Midphase Design
12        Endphase
Glossary         
Index
 

Recenzii

“The work of a master researcher who recalls in illuminating detail how he and his students over the last thirty years went about solving a large number of empirical and theoretical research problems. He systematizes these memories into usable advice and lays out a multistage plan for successful scholarship that meets very rigorous demands. Without a hint of trendiness, this manual will reliably guide novice scholars into a new world of materials for study and will help their mentors keep up as well. An indispensable guide for serious humanistic study in the future.”

"With illuminating examples from social science and humanities research, and with self-deprecating humor, Abbott develops an economic model describing tradeoffs between searching and reading. . . . Essential."

“There is justified concern today about information overload, poor writing skills, and the decline of library research in the digital age. We are fortunate that Andrew Abbott comes to the rescue with a manual for writing a research paper using the tools of the modern library. Avoiding hype and cutting to the essential qualities of good research design, he shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read and will be a boon for students. Even veterans of the trade will find much to like.”

"I can honestly say that every student, professor, and intellectual needs to read [Digital Paper]. It’s a superb ‘how to’ guide about writing a long research paper or thesis. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire theory of how scholars pursue scholarship. It’s a memoir of Abbott’s own research. It’s a pessimistic and slightly misanthropic ode to a quiet world of well-ordered card catalogs destroyed by the garish vulgarity of online databases. It’s an epigrammatic summary of a career’s worth of knowledge. It is—yes, I really mean this—life-affirming."