The chapters we see in this fascinating collection organized by Maltz and
Rice would be a valuable addition to such a course. Each of the authors, in
very different ways, has taken us behind the scenes, not so much to a particular
paper, but rather to a particular facet of a research issue or a personal
research career. Their stories confi rm one of the themes of my seminar that
“all research is research in progress.” There is a striking continuity in the
authors’ individual stories as they moved from one completed paper to the
next, even though it may appear that the next paper moves into a different
area. Finding that different area could well have been provoked by issues
raised in a previous paper, by methodologies introduced or developed in an earlier paper, or by needs to support a previous assumption.