How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
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How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t shake, a quote you read in passing, or a flicker of an idea that has no shape yet, just feeling.
how to get smart again: writing mini research essays
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Over long periods of time spent in physical archives, you develop a holistic picture of a slice of history that is necessarily individual to you, as the researcher, because you can’t control or even fully understand what your brain finds interesting in a set of documents. They’re just ... interesting . Maybe not to anyone else, at first. But over t... See more