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

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But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott’s unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper. Abbott reminds us that our insane desire for thorough and exhaustive knowledge of a topic is one of our most valuable traits — all that stands between the present and a future where the highest quality social scientific information available is Buzzfeed lists of celebrities who look like Otters. When you brute force things, you are always noticing stuff as you go along, even as you are absolutely dying of boredom. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott’s guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott's unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper. It’s about producing beautiful new (and newly beautiful) assemblages of scholarly material, but not really about replacing old ones the way good science replaces bad science.Abbott is one of the most thoughtful people writing today about what specialist knowledge is, and how we produce it. Cross-referencing is minimized; phrases are listed under the main substantive noun in the phrase unless the phrase is an obvious unit (e.

And the experiential message of the internet is that everything has an address somewhere, you just need to find it, you just need an address. Now it may very well be true that I would have gotten as many insights if I had only gone through half that much data. As Abbott puts it, “serendipity is not an unusual, once-in-a-lifetime, even once-in-a-project thing. It’s like me answering this question—I could go on and on about it, but I just have to focus on one particular thing—the lost student. I proved this by looking at Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and showed that when the book first came out, about 17% of the references to it had page numbers - so not just Kuhn 1970, but Kuhn 1970, page 26.He’s also a fan of high-quality bibliographies, which can be out of date but still have a better signal to noise ratio than the Internetz. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But if you ask them to summarize Hobbes’s arguments, they’ll present you with lists of bullet points, because they’ve been taught in classes that Hobbes can be presented as bullet points.

The PDF file you selected should load here if your Web browser has a PDF reader plug-in installed (for example, a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader). If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. They’re not really cumulative and nobody expects to find the absolutely correct interpretation of Madame Bovary or the meaning of La Gioconda’s smile or the uniquely true reason the battle of Austerlitz was a French victory.

And of course, that scholar probably looked at three or four more books before choosing the one charged.

Are other libraries going in the same direction, or is Chicago’s new Mansueto Library bucking the trend? Well, that isn’t the way knowledge works, and we’re actually in a bigger crisis about this, than about libraries.Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, edits the American Journal of Sociology . The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Add this content to your learning management system or webpage by copying the code below into the HTML editor on the page. His readers, like his students, are often frustrated by an information world where everything is equally accessible and equally inviting. One way in which Abbott helps bring this down to earth is his concrete instructions on how to find information.

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