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Entries from November 2005

The Late Age of Print

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off

Will Richardson of weblogg-ed has an interesting post on hypertext inspired by Jay David Bolter’s book Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print (another one for my must-read list.) Sample quote:
“Publishing is fundamentally serious and permanent; a scholar or scientist cannot even retract his own previously published argument without embarrassment. A dialogue, on [...]

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Review of Ian Parker (2005). Qualitative Psychology: Introducing radical research. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

November 11th, 2005 · 1 Comment

The problem with research methods textbooks is that they are so utterly boring.  Not only is there a stifling monotony as one flips from one to another – saying the same thing (not plagiarized, of course) in umpteen different ways – but they manage to challenge the wakefulness of even first time readers. The problem [...]

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