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Robert Caro on the research process
I have mentioned in a previous post, and may well mention again, Robert Caro’s excellent little book on the research process, Working: researching, interviewing, writing. Caro, who is most famous for his multi-volume biography of US President Lyndon Johnson, draws … Continue reading
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Beware the alibi of photocopies
There are many intellectual aspirins in Oliver Burkeman’s weekly, ‘This column will save your life’, in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. The column ‘What unread books can teach us’ is particularly pertinent to the budding researcher. In it Burkeman, drawing on observations by … Continue reading