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The collaborative character of science and scholarship, whether formal or informal in nature, is the focus of this discu

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The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards
 0810852829

Table of contents :
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 1 Scholars and Scripts
Chapter 3 2 Epistemic Cultures
Chapter 4 3 Hyperauthorship
Chapter 5 4 Information Space
Chapter 6 5 Intellectual Collaboration
Chapter 7 6 The Reward System
Chapter 8 7 Symbolic Capitalism
Chapter 9 8 The Attention Economy
Chapter 10 9 Scientometric Spectroscopy
Part 11 Index
Part 12 About the Author

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The Hand of Science Academic Writing and Its Rewards

Blaise Cronin

THE SCARECROW PRESS, INC.

Lanham, Maryland • Toronto • Oxford 2005

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