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Please allow me to acknowledge my debt our US family. To Elaine and Ian, we love you. I am grateful every day for the joy that Luke, my son, brings to the lives of his parents. Lesley and I find life all the richer because of his presence. The editors have decided to dedicate this book to our wives. For Lesley, one is never sure what exactly is around the corner of life, but I am so pleased that I am making the journey with you.
Contributors
Trevor Bechtel,
Kathryn D. Blanchard,
Andrei A. Buckareff,
Celia Deane-Drummond,
Cass Fisher,
Pamela D. Jones,
John Allan Knight,
Ian Markham,
Thomas J. Oord,
Martyn Percy,
Tinu Ruparell,
Christopher Southgate,
Leigh Vicens,
Keith Ward,
1 Introduction
Most professors are better at imparting content than they are at imparting research skills. Professors are good at explaining the complexities of Aquinas or the details of Kant’s categorical imperative. But they are less good at helping a student learn how to think about a new way to interpret this thinker or defend an unfashionable position. Beyond the basics, such as thinking critically and avoiding plagiarism, many professors usually don’t teach a student how to move the discipline on to a new set of questions or a new approach or a potential solution to an old problem. For the Masters’ student trying to write a thesis or a student starting on a Ph.D. dissertation, we have an old‐fashioned system of “trial and error” – you try, the professor tells you that it is wrong, and you try again. There is a need for a book that explains how to write in such a way that you advance a discipline; there is a need for a book that explains why this article is great and that it should be a model of great research writing.