{"id":942,"date":"2009-11-05T21:37:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/11\/05\/above-below-and-on-either-side\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:37:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:37:46","slug":"above-below-and-on-either-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/above-below-and-on-either-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Above, Below, and on Either Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0226823377\/713713713-20\">Turabian handbook<\/a> is well-known to students as a guide for writing research papers, theses, and dissertations.&#160; Within another few weeks, I &#8216;ll have read it cover to cover.&#160; Tonight I read this sage piece of advice on finding books on your topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you &#8216;re allowed in the stacks (where all the books that you can check out are kept), find the shelf with books on your topic.&#160; Then scan the titles on that shelf and the ones above, below, and on either side.&#160; Then turn around and skim titles behind you; you never know (7th ed., p. 31).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It just struck me as ridiculous that a book would need to tell students to <em>browse the bookshelves<\/em> in search of related resources.&#160; I guess the writers must have had students who never figured this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turabian handbook is well-known to students as a guide for writing research papers, theses, and dissertations.&#160; Within another few weeks, I &#8216;ll have read it cover to cover.&#160; Tonight I read this sage piece of advice on finding books on your topic: If you &#8216;re allowed in the stacks (where all the books that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/above-below-and-on-either-side\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-humor","category-phd-coursework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}