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While preserving the book's proven approach to the research process, as well as its general structure and accessible voice, this new edition acknowledges the many ways research is conducted and communicated today. Thoroughly revised by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, it recognizes that research may lead to a product other than a paper--or no product at all--and includes a new chapter about effective presentations. It features fresh examples from a variety of fields that will appeal to today's students and other readers. It also accounts for new technologies used in research and offers basic guidelines for the appropriate use of generative AI. And it ends with an expanded chapter on ethics that addresses researchers' broader obligations to their research communities and audiences as well as systemic questions about ethical research practices.

This new edition will be welcomed by a new and more diverse generation of researchers.",{"_812":828,"_814":837,"_788":1003},"University of Chicago Press",{"_812":828,"_814":819,"_788":840},{"_812":828,"_814":842,"_788":843},{"_812":828,"_814":845,"_788":846},{"_812":828,"_814":1008,"_788":1009},"bic_subject","SCIENCE: GENERAL ISSUES",{"_812":828,"_814":848,"_788":1011},"2024-07-05",{"_812":828,"_814":1013,"_788":1014},"page_count","368",{"_812":851,"_814":731,"_788":852},{"_812":851,"_814":854,"_788":857},{"_812":851,"_814":856,"_788":857},{"_812":851,"_814":859,"_788":1019},"12/10/2026",{"_812":851,"_814":862,"_788":1021},"36.0",{"_812":851,"_814":864,"_788":1023},"1",{"_812":867,"_814":868,"_788":869},{"_812":867,"_814":731,"_788":869},{"_812":867,"_814":872,"_788":747},{"_812":867,"_814":874,"_788":747},{"_812":867,"_814":876,"_788":877},{"_812":867,"_814":879,"_788":877},{"_812":867,"_814":881,"_788":877},{"_812":867,"_814":883,"_788":877},{"_812":867,"_814":885,"_788":886},{"_812":867,"_814":888,"_788":886},{"_812":867,"_814":890,"_788":891},{"_812":867,"_814":893,"_788":891},{"_765":1037},[1038],{"_768":116,"_769":-5,"_130":1039,"_209":1040,"_779":1044,"_785":1045,"_17":982,"_789":1047,"_791":1048},"gid://shopify/ProductVariant/50642492326085",{"_772":1041,"_774":775,"_130":1042,"_35":985,"_777":1043},"The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition Cover Image","gid://shopify/ProductImage/44355838378181",1325,{"_781":782,"_783":1021},[1046],{"_751":752,"_788":982},"9780226826677",{"_793":1049},[1050],{"_796":1051},{"_798":116,"_133":1052},{"_751":729},{"_130":1054,"_17":1055,"_742":1056,"_760":1057,"_809":1059,"_763":1121},"gid://shopify/Product/10342772605125","Reader Come Home","reader-come-home",{"_35":1058},"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0625/6679/3413/files/978-0-06-358540-9.jpg?v=1791342968",[1060,1061,1063,1064,1066,-5,1069,1070,1072,1075,1077,1079,1082,1084,1085,1086,-5,1087,1089,1091,1093,1095,-5,1096,-5,1098,1099,-5,1102,-5,1104,-5,1106,1107,-5,1108,1109,-5,1111,1112,-5,1114,1115,-5,1117,-5,-5,1118,1119,-5],{"_812":813,"_814":17,"_788":1055},{"_812":813,"_814":816,"_788":1062},"WOLF MARYANNE",{"_812":813,"_814":819,"_788":820},{"_812":813,"_814":822,"_788":1065},"HARPUS",{"_812":813,"_814":1067,"_788":1068},"supplier_auckland","INGR",{"_812":828,"_814":829,"_788":830},{"_812":828,"_814":17,"_788":1071},"Reader, Come Home",{"_812":828,"_814":1073,"_788":1074},"subtitle","The Reading Brain in a Digital World",{"_812":828,"_814":816,"_788":1076},"Maryanne Wolf",{"_812":828,"_814":835,"_788":1078},"

\"Whether you are an avid or occasional reader--a teacher, a bookseller, or a parent--there will be a 'before' and an 'after' Reader, Come Home.\"--Joël Dicker, New York Times bestselling author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

Updated with a new preface--a call to action and attention to all readers--this ambitious, lively, and deeply informative book from the author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid considers the future of the reading brain and of our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies, including AI and beyond.

In her classic work Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf revealed how the brain learned to read and how reading affects the way we think and feel. In Reader, Come Home, she conveys her concerns and hopes about what happens to the reading brain as we become more reliant--and addicted--to digital mediums, especially given the rapid evolution of AI. Eschewing the simple binary of print versus screen reading, she urges us to understand how each format nurtures or diminishes our quality of thought and the intellectual development of our young--and what is at stake with the loss of \"deep reading.\"

Written as a series of letters to her beloved readers, Reader, Come Home raises difficult questions:

Will the next generation, adept in multitasking and quick access to multiple sources of knowledge, fail to fully develop their own \"slower,\" more demanding, deep reading processes, such as critical reasoning and perspective-taking, leaving them vulnerable to false information?
Will the seemingly continuous distractions on digital mediums change the nature of attention in our youth, and thus disrupt their ability to concentrate and consolidate new information into memory?
Across every age will skimming become the \"new norm\" that short-circuits the time needed for inferential thinking, critical analysis, reflection, and empathy--core elements of a democracy?

Drawing on literature, philosophy, and neuroscience, Wolf uses down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate difficult ideas that culminate in her thought-provoking proposal for a biliterate reading brain capable of deep reading across mediums. Reader, Come Home presents an extraordinary clarion call to understand the complex impact of technology on the reading brain and what this could mean for our future.

A Timely Look at the Reading Brain: From the author of Proust and the Squid, this updated edition explores how digital technology and AI are transforming how we read, think, and reflect.

Urgent Questions for a Digital World: Examines how reliance on screens, social media, and AI may affect attention, memory, empathy, and the intellectual development of children and adults.

What Happens to Deep Reading?: Challenges readers to consider whether multitasking, skimming, and constant distraction weaken critical reasoning, perspective‑taking, and resistance to misinformation.

Accessible and Thoughtful Format: Written as a series of personal letters that blend neuroscience, philosophy, and literature with clear explanations, vivid examples, and warm storytelling.

A Hopeful Path Forward: Proposes a \"biliterate\" reading brain capable of deep reading across print and digital media--essential for democracy, empathy, and our collective future.

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For both aspiring and experienced authors, Ives' collection of writing exercises opens the door to a new world of possibilities to imagine, think, remember and write

Though there are 365 exercises for writing in this book, three six five is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a \"how-to\" book of questions rather than answers, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an ars poetica of expanding possibility. Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, Lucy Ives here offers encouragement, candor and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders and challenges of writing life. These prompts--in alchemical combinations with drawings by Nick Mauss--offer ways to become a (better) writer through observation, reorientation, inquiry, play and engagement with the world and its inhabitants. They invite the writer to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening and by being distracted.
Lucy Ives is a novelist, poet and critic. Her essay collection, An Image of My Name Enters America, won the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught at Brown, Cornell and New York Universities and received a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

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\"In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.\" - Aristotle

Some of the most evocative words in language are those we use to describe the natural world. Words like petrichor, murmuration, shivelight and dreich all conjure up experiences of being out in nature. In Japan this concept of connection with the outdoors is known as Shinrin-yoku 'forest bathing', whilst in Norway it is Friluftsliv or 'free-air life', a word coined by playwright Henrik Ibsen, meaning to spend time reconnecting with nature.

Nature has inspired poets and writers through the centuries, and the phrases they used are often what we bring to mind when we think of the natural world: Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud, Keats wrote his 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Shakespeare compared his muse to a summer's day.

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Steering The Craft

by Ursula K. Le Guin & Kelly Link & Karen Joy