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Defining Good Scholarship
“”Q. Why choose peer review?” “I wanted to get at the process of evaluation, at how professors think about quality. I could have looked at tenure review, but decisions in those cases are often influenced by local considerations. Peer-reviewed grants and fellowships provide me a way into national evaluation.” [...]
George Steiner on scholarship, in a new collection of his essays
“It may well be that scholarship of the very first order is as rare as great art or poetry. Some of the gifts and qualities it exacts are obvious: exceeding concentration, a capacious but minutely precise memory, finesse and a sort of pious skepticism in the handling of evidence and sources, clarity of presentation.” [...]
