170 Pages
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Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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The one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions, the time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject... Read more
I: Writing and Reading; 1: In the Same Place, at the Same Time, and in the Same Way; 2: Rationality in Writing: Linear and Curvilinear; 3: Reading with a Purpose; II: Research; 4: The Organization of Time in Scholarly Activities Carried Out under American Conditions in Resource-Rich Research Universities; 5: The Open-Ended, Semistructured Interview: An (Almost) Operational Guide; 6: On Collaboration; III: The Profession; 7: Teaching by Talking; 8: On Being a Department Chair; 9: Why It Is Necessary to Read Real Science in Order to Understand Environmental and Safety Policy and Politics; 10: Review of Acts of Meaning by Jerome Brunner; 11: Has Modernity Killed Objectivity?
Biography
Aaron Wildavsky
