By Logan Wilson
The word 'publish or perish' was once it seems that coined, or no less than publicized, through Logan Wilson in his vintage research the tutorial guy: A research within the Sociology of a career, 197 (1942):
"The winning pragmatism pressured upon the educational crew is that one needs to write anything and get it into print. state of affairs imperatives dictate a 'publish or perish' credo in the ranks."
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Such a requirement IS in force in nearly all graduate schools, although m many cases another language may be substItuted for eIther French or German. The nominal purpose of the requirement, whIch usually must be met at least a year before the candIdate presents himself for his final doctoral examination, is to make certain that he has suffiCIent facility in these languages to utilize them in hIS research. Actually, the requirement IS just another dreaded hurdle as far as the average indIVIdual IS concerned.
Most instItutions, as we have noted, do stipulate some 'baptism of printer's mk,' even though It be a. mere sprmkhng m the form of abstracts. The dissertatlon is presumed to be only the first step in its author's antIcipated career of productive writmg, but, as caustic cntics of the academician have pomted out, as a creative contributor to knowledge he is often so exhausted by the birth pains of the thesis that never again does he bring forth issue. TImorously or confidently, after havmg hiS thesis accepted, the candidate approaches hiS last hurdle, the doctoral examinatIOn.
The occupatIOnal culture, however, has set up ready means for meetmg his dilemma. ' In the humanities there are always 'influences' to be traced and 'sources' that are sure to be revealed by patient digging, m the social sciences there are innumerable uncorrelated data to be correlated m proving or disprovmg thIS, that, or the other proposition; and the physical SCIences tgo are not lacking in stereotyped projects of their own. Back in 1902 the ASSOCiatIOn of American Universities attempted to define the formal pattern of 'dissertation activity': First, the method must either be invented or adapted to the problem.