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If this book provided a set of rules to be learned and applied,
writing a thesis might seem pleasingly easy. But, because writing a
thesis is seldom easy, the book instead offers a more complex
mapping of the process. The purpose is to raise awareness of the
critical choices involved in research and thesis writing for both
masters and doctorates. Running as a leitmotif throughout is the
notion that no conceptual construct can be complete unto itself.
Concepts can only be defined in terms of their dynamic relations
with other constructs. It is in this context that the three broad
methodological categories informing discussion in the book -
exegetic, empirical, and qualitative - were adopted for didactic
purposes only: at no time are they considered autonomies.
Therefore, not only can they be compared in multiple ways, their
shared continuities are often as significant as their differences.
Nonetheless, as in the case of different disciplines, differing
methodological positions have different textual outcomes. Writing a
masters' or doctoral thesis is not only an inherently idiosyncratic
exercise, it is also epistemic and, in the current intellectual
climate, rhetorical. The malleability of the disciplinary and
methodological vocabularies used in academic rhetorics reflects the
manner in which not only words but also styles of writing evolve to
suit particular purposes. For this reason, the style of writing and
the words used in a thesis will need to be interrogated with the
same informed intensity applied to all other aspects of the
research undertaking. Only then, with the drawing of a more complex
cognitive map, will a definition incrementally develop of what - in
terms of a researcher's own needs - constitutes sound academic
discourse.
Barry White kicks off Staying Power, his first album since 1994's
The Icon Is Love, with a title track that boasts of his
long-running stamina, both in bed and in terms of his career.
Indeed, the mood here is often as reflective as it is seductive.
While sticking close to the machine-tooled groove that helped make
Icon's "Practice What You Preach" such a memorable single, the disc
also finds White putting his low-register stamp on War's "Low
Rider" and Sly Stone's "Thank You" (the latter in a version that,
intriguingly, recalls the slow There's a Riot Goin' On take more
than the better-known hit). Staying power? Hey, if you've got it,
flaunt it. --Rickey Wright
Import only 10-track collection released through Universal.
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