本书介绍了一种环形研究过程：思考-写作-修订-重新思考，并提出了在寻找话题、制定计划、收集资料、组织论据、起草初稿、修改润色等各个环节中贯彻以读者为中心原则的具体方法。如何将模糊的兴趣转为一个值得提出和解决的难题；如何建立一个论证，并让读者愿意接受你的观点；如何预知那些思维缜密且具有批判力的读者的不同意见，并适当地加以回应；如何撰写导言与结论，回答这个最棘手的问题：“那又怎样？”如何从读者的角度阅读自己的作品，因而知道该什么时候以及如何修改你的研究报告。

《会读才会写：导向论文写作的文献阅读技巧》（原名：How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences: A Very Practical Guide for Students），本书专门教授高效率阅读社会科学类学术论文的实用技巧。
本书使用作者独创的阅读密码表，教学生在阅读社会与行为科学期刊论文时，如何将其作为在结构、技巧和语法方面可解码的文本处理。书里的技巧让读者能够进行系统化的阅读、笔记，并以易辨识、易提取的格式实现海量信息的组织。

《与本科生谈:论文与治学》分为八讲，所讲授的内容是郑也夫教授几十年来读书、写作、做学问的心得体会，行文风格类似讲座，感情真挚，字字珠玑，发人深省，是一味以做学问为志业、为乐趣的“老学者”向青年学子的传道、授业和解惑。

《论证是一门学问:如何让你的观点有说服力》不仅能使您在撰写文章和发表演讲时，清晰而有力地阐明自己的观点，还有助于您形成批判性的思维方式和怀疑精神。无论是进行调查研究、阅读论证类文章，还是赢得听众的信任，这本小册子都是您必不可少的有力帮手。简要论证有哪些基本规则？演绎论证有几种类型？因果论证的核心要义是什么？怎样进行概括与总结？如何正确地运用信息来源？口头论证需要更加注意什么？如何避免论证过程中容易出现的谬误？……
在这本简短精练的规则手册中，作者大量运用贴近生活的例证，归纳了45条进行论证时需要遵循的规则，以及在论证过程中常见的谬误和隐秘的陷阱，帮助您进行逻辑严谨的论证，得出有说服力的结论。
第一章至第六章讨论如何构建和评估简要论证。简要论证只是简单地提出理由和证据。通常只有几句话或一个段落。我们从简要论证开始是出于以下几个原因。首先。它们很常见：实际上它们极其常见，是人们日常对话的一部分。其次，较长的论证通常是对简要论证的详细说明，或者是将一系列简要论证连在一起。如果你首先学习书写和评估简要论证，那么你就能够把这项技能加以扩展，处理议论文或口头陈述中的详细论证。
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第七章带你从整体到局部地研究详细论证，同时你需要思考反对意见和其他可能性。第八章带你从上一步进入议论文写作。然后，第九章补充一些针对口头陈述的规则。同样。所有这些章节都以前六章为基础，因为像这样的详细论证本质上是对前六章讨论的简要论证进行组合和详细说明。……
《论证是一门学问:如何让你的观点有说服力》结尾有两个附录。附录一列举了各种谬误：这些使人产生误解的论证是如此地迷惑人、如此地常见，它们甚至有自己的名字。附录二提供了构建和评估定义的三个规则。在需要使用它们的时候就请使用吧！

无论是学生还是教授，都需要写作。然而，写作让许多人感到头痛。拖延症，是学术圈的流行病，是学术生涯中的顽症……
心理学家席尔瓦的这本小册子，实用、励志而轻松。它告诉你写作不需要太多的天赋或特殊才能，而是需要策略、方法和行动。熟读此书，你不用熬夜，也能成为文思泉涌的学术牛人，既不耽误享受生活，又能获得高效率写作带来的成就感，走向学术生涯的高峰。

From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.
So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the “air and light and time and space,” in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative experiences, their daily routines, their habits of mind? How do they summon up the courage to take intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection?
Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this “BASE,” she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.

Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question.
Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how to evaluate data and prior research; how to follow a trail to elusive treasures; how to organize a project; when to start over; when to ask for help. He shows how an understanding of scholarly values, a commitment to hard work, and the flexibility to change direction combine to enable the researcher to turn a daunting mass of found material into an effective paper or thesis.
More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott’s guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Those looking for ten easy steps to a perfect paper may want to look elsewhere. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott’s unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper.

著名汉学家杨联陞自比为汉学的看门人，其学术书评驰誉学界。本书辑录了杨先生60余篇中英文书评，所评皆为名家代表著作，内容遍涉语言、官制、考古、地理、边疆史、文学史、科技史、经济思想史、书画史、佛教史、史学史、敦煌学等领域，包罗中国文化史，显示了先生学问之博雅。这些书评篇篇皆有深度，或纠正原著中的重要讹误，或澄清困惑学界的关键问题，并提出了诸多独到卓见。本书所收英文书评多为首次翻译出版。