To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. My students [at the University of Chicago] today are completely overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that’s available to them on the internet, and they’re particularly overwhelmed because they don’t have any clues about how to make judgements of quality. But he’s also produced practical pieces about how students and professors develop ideas, and how to have new ones.

Abbott is one of my favorite sociologists, especially when it comes to discussions of theory and method. Thanks to JSTOR, you can find and download Robert Lowie’s correspondence with Ernst Mach in a minute or two, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an excellent entry on Mach… if you speak Philosophy.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. So, yes: the Internet works and a tremendous amount of stuff is available… if you can make sense of it. Add this content to your learning management system or webpage by copying the code below into the HTML editor on the page.

But having read it now, and with a critical (if biased) eye, I can honestly say that every student, professor, and intellectual needs to read it. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). 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. It’s true that because of this pattern I do have perhaps a dozen major projects that were never finished despite a lot of effort: a book on education, a huge study of musicians that produced only one published paper and left two other papers sitting idle, a project on occupational therapy that’s still dragging on after more than a decade, etc. 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.Cross-referencing is minimized; phrases are listed under the main substantive noun in the phrase unless the phrase is an obvious unit (e. In effect, I created by hand an entire relational database and all the major subtables of that database. 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. As a current graduate student, there is quite a bit of mystery in terms of what constitutes a 'successful' academic paper. 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.