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Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process
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Description for Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process
Paperback. Presents narratives that demystify and illuminate the research process by showing how personal experiences, family history, and scholarly research intersect. This book traces the importance of place in archival research and the parallels between the lives of research subjects and researchers. Editor(s): Kirsch, Gesa E.; Rohan, Liz. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: GPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process presents highly readable narratives that demystify and illuminate the research process by showing how personal experiences, family history, and scholarly research intersect. Editors Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan emphasize how important it is for researchers to tap into their passions, pursuing research subjects that attract their attention with creativity and intuition without limiting themselves to traditional archival sources and research methods.Eighteen contributors from a number of disciplines detail inspiring research opportunities that led to recently published works, while offering insights on such topics as starting and finishing research projects, using a ... Read more
Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process presents highly readable narratives that demystify and illuminate the research process by showing how personal experiences, family history, and scholarly research intersect. Editors Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan emphasize how important it is for researchers to tap into their passions, pursuing research subjects that attract their attention with creativity and intuition without limiting themselves to traditional archival sources and research methods.Eighteen contributors from a number of disciplines detail inspiring research opportunities that led to recently published works, while offering insights on such topics as starting and finishing research projects, using a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328406
SKU
V9780809328406
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About
Gesa E. Kirsch, a professor of English at Bentley College, is the author of Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research and Women Writing the Academy. Liz Rohan, an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, has published articles in several journals, including Rhetoric Review and Computers and Composition Studies.
Reviews for Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process
"Beyond the Archives brings back the smell of the chase, the excitement and mystery of the unfolding of each and every archival or historical project. Captivating." - Catherine Hobbs, author of Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo"