Our free 450-page handbook on research: how it works, how to do it well, and how to stay constructively critical without losing the joy.
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If you’d like to help us keep improving this handbook, thank you — it genuinely helps. Your support funds:
- ongoing editorial work (clarifications, examples, references, corrections)
- an audio version
- short video support for the more complex parts
- our wider programme of projects aimed at a more joyously critical world: practical, research-informed resources that help people think clearly, question well, and still enjoy the work.
You can support us here:
- Book text and figures: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (share widely, no changes, no commercial reuse). See
LICENSE. - Code / LaTeX scripts / tooling: MIT. See
LICENSE-CODE.
We welcome material contributions, but please contact us before you start so we can coordinate scope, style, attribution, and where the material fits.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
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CITATION.bib - GitHub citation metadata:
CITATION.cff
This project is built with XeLaTeX.
You can download the source LaTeX from /Manuscript/.
To build, we recommend latexmk:
cd Manuscript
latexmk -xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error MastersHandbook.tex