The Modern Researcher (with Infotrac) [With Infotrac]

by Henry F. Graff and Jacques Barzun

Book Overview

This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in history courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155055291
• ISBN13: 9780155055292
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Modern Researcher

This book is a very useful tool for the researcher. It gives you all the insight necessary to conduct an investigation. The narratives is written in a very easy to understand language. Highly recommended.

Time-tested excellence

This book has guided more Ph.D. theses into successful completion and more decent, serious academic works through research and writing and into print than any other single work available. Those who might not find this book to their liking bring a story to mind about two young people walking through an art gallery and commenting loudly on what they did and did not like. A guard approached them and said, "Gentlemen, the art is not on trial here." Sometimes an opinion says much more about the person rendering the judgment than about that which is being evaluated.This classic work is not on trial. It proved itself long, long ago.

How to be a Competent Intellectual

If there ever was a book that teaches you how to be a scholar in 600 pages or less, this is it. Very clearly written. And Barzun has proven many times that he has a fine mind and good judgement. Hence this book violates the witticism "Those who can't do, teach." Every serious university student of humanities or social theory should read this book carefully.

An inspiring and heartening book for researchers.

I read this book (cover to cover) in the midst of Master's thesis work. The authors' words often reassured and heartened me. I appreciated their sensitivity and thoroughness. On several projects since, I've wished I had a copy at hand. I look forward to the 2002 edition to include much more about computerized research considerations.