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What moron decided that The Craft of Research, one of the few writing manuals that's really useful at the graduate level and above, needed to have lots more of the same old prescriptive writing advice that stuffs every other pointless undergraduate handbook? If I just want someone to explain what a verb is and tell me to "write clearly," I can pick any writing manual from 2017 back to 1551 and get the same value for my dollar. (P.S. If 400+ years of going over the grammar in writing hasn't fixed undergraduate essays yet, perhaps publishers ought to start promoting some other method...?) I'm particularly peeved that Chapter 8—which used to contain Booth et al.'s priceless commentary on "contestable, defensible, substantive"—has been gutted. For example, it now includes a description of "claims of evaluation" (i.e., self-appointed arbitrations of taste) as though they're wholly on a par with academic research, and gives as its example EXACTLY the thesis statement I warn all my students against. Thanks, boys. Thanks a lot. Time to look for as many copies of the 3rd edition as I can find.