Research and the Manuscript Tradition

by Frank G. Burke

Researchers faced with using documentary sources for the first time, such as correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts, are plunged into a world far different from the familiar library setting, with its card or computer catalogs, bibliographies, and other resource-finding tools. Over and over, studies of research methodology among scholars reveal that they learn by some sort of collegial osmosis and general fumbling about until they figure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810833484
• ISBN13: 9780810833487
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"