The Modern Researcher

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the modem
"This bcx)k—a really sterling achievement—is designed to turn you into an expert do-it-yourself researcher and reporter." LON TINKLE, Dallas News
A manual on the combined operations of research and report writing which will be valuable to the student, editor, businessman, or professional person who needs to produce reports of any kind, on any subject. "It differs from traditional expositions of the subject by its deft philosophical approach, its wide coverage of time, place, and subject matter, its powerful appeal to reader imagination, and a masterly style which makes its perusal an exhilarating intellectual adventure." (Lowell Ragatz).
PART 1: First Principles covers research and report as historian's work, and the A B C of technique.
PART 11: Research deals with a broad range of subjects such as fact finding, authentication, the handling of idieas, truth and causation, pattern and bias, and the various schools of thought in interpreting the facts of the past.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

the modem
"This bcx)k—a really sterling achievement—is designed to turn you into an expert do-it-yourself researcher and reporter." LON TINKLE, Dallas News
A manual on the combined operations of research and report writing which will be valuable to the student, editor, businessman, or professional person who needs to produce reports of any kind, on any subject. "It differs from traditional expositions of the subject by its deft philosophical approach, its wide coverage of time, place, and subject matter, its powerful appeal to reader imagination, and a masterly style which makes its perusal an exhilarating intellectual adventure." (Lowell Ragatz).
PART 1: First Principles covers research and report as historian's work, and the A B C of technique.
PART 11: Research deals with a broad range of subjects such as fact finding, authentication, the handling of idieas, truth and causation, pattern and bias, and the various schools of thought in interpreting the facts of the past.
PART III: Writing covers the organization of data, the avoidance of jargon and cliché, clarity of expression, and the arts of quoting, footnoting, and proof reading.
A Discipline for Work is outlined in the Afterword.
JACQUES BARZUN is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University as well as Provost of the University. For thirty-five years he has taught to thousands of students at Columbia and elsewhere the methods and substance of modern cultural history, a subject on which he has also written a dozen books. Recently, Mr. Barzun was honored with the title of Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridjge.
HENRY F. GRAFF is Chairman of the Columbia Department
of History, of which he has been a member since 1946.
He has served as a visiting professor at Vassar College. Among his
publications are Bluejackets with Perry in Japan and
The Adventure of the American People. A frequent contributor to
the New York Times and other leading publications, he is also the
Consulting Editor of LlFE's six-volume history of the United States.
A HARBINGER BOOK / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Vissza