Category Archives: Research
Scholarly mavens and curators
Talk to people for a while about what makes for good large-scale collaboration and they will eventually mention someone who is a connector: a kind of modern saloniste. Who led you to meet someone. I can think of several cases where this occurred. Where someone has said “Alex, you are working on X1. That’s a […]
[the making of, pt. 2] Assembling the lit review
(This is the second in a series of posts on the making of a research article. If you haven’t already, go back and check it out from the start.) Overlapping sheets, not a point A common response I get back from undergrads undertaking their first literature review is that they cannot find anything. This is […]
Correction: I “buy” it
I was looking over an article in the (Baltimore) Examiner that reads, in part: “Some things get really bad–histories, politics, gets controversial that doesn’t get settled easily,” said Bernard Huberman, author of a study, which determined that increased edits make Wikipedia articles “superior.” Not everyone is buying the study, and some even did their own […]
Jenkins on the new pedagogy