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Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines
Tony Becher,Paul Trowler +1 more
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In this article, the authors discuss academic disciplines overlaps, boundaries and specialisms aspects of community life patterns of communication academic careers and the wider context implications for theory and practice in the context of communication.Abstract:
Points of departure academic disciplines overlaps, boundaries and specialisms aspects of community life patterns of communication academic careers the wider context implications for theory and practice. Appendix: research issues.read more
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Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review
TL;DR: The extent to which the process of systematic review can be applied to the management field in order to produce a reliable knowledge stock and enhanced practice by developing context-sensitive research is evaluated.
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Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the process of systematic review used in the medical sciences to produce a reliable knowledge stock and enhanced practice by developing context-sensitive research and highlight the challenges in developing an appropriate methodology.
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Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse
TL;DR: A great deal of research has now established that written texts embody interactions between writers and readers as discussed by the authors, and a range of linguistic features have been identified as contributing to the writer's...
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Investigating the factors that diminish the barriers to university–industry collaboration
TL;DR: This paper explored the influence of different mechanisms in lowering barriers related to the orientation of universities and to the transactions involved in working with university partners, and explored the effects of collaboration experience, breadth of interaction, and inter-organizational trust on lowering different types of barriers.
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Dimensionality and Disciplinary Differences in Personal Epistemology.
TL;DR: Investigating the dimensionality of personal epistemology as hypothesized in a recent review of the literature and the nature of disciplinary differences suggests that there is an underlying dimensionality to epistemological theories that cuts across disciplinary domains, but that students, at least by the 1st year of college, discriminate as to how these theories differ by discipline.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
The structure of scientific revolutions
TL;DR: The structure of scientific revolutions (1962) / Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) is a book about the history of science and its discontents.
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The characteristics of subject matter in different academic areas.
TL;DR: The authors performed multidimensional scaling on scholars' judgments about the similarities of the subject matter of different academic areas and found that three dimensions were common to the solutions of both samples: existence of a paradigm, concern with application, and concern with life systems.
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
C. P. Snow,Roman Smoluchowski +1 more
TL;DR: The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays written by the authors of Strangers and Brothers, a series of eleven novels about upper-middle-class English society.
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Relationships between subject matter characteristics and the structure and output of university departments.
TL;DR: The social structure and output of scholars at the University of Illinois were examined in terms of the characteristics of their academic subject matter as discussed by the authors, and the degree to which they were socially connected to others, their commitment to teaching, research, and service, and the number of journal articles, monographs, and technical reports that they published, and their number of dissertations that they sponsored.