The Modern Researcher [antikvár]

FOREWORD This book is for anyone who is or will be engaged in research and report writing, regardless of his field of interest. The work is planned on unconventional lines because the authors have found in their experience as teachers and editors that the needs of writers and researchers—^whether in college or graduate school, in business or the professions—are met neither by the usual "Introduction to Research" nor by the usual "How to Write" books. Rather, the need is for a new view of the single subject, Research-and-Report, which these conventional manuals falsely split apart. In academic life, the fallacy of the split is expressed in the impatient outcry: "Why doesn't the English Department teach them how to write!" The authors are historians who sympathize equally with the EngUsh Department, with the universal demand for better writing, and with all those who, soon or late in their education, are trying to master at once the techniques of research and the art of expression. What such persons need, clearly, is a manual of combined operations. It must be designed to give not so much a set of rules as an insight into what the mind is about when it seeks for facts in library books and prepares a report on its findings for the mspection of other men. To carry out its purpose, this book concentrates on principles of thought and the analysis of difficulties. It illustrates both theory and xi