I think 'becoming a historian of the craft' is very much what a first year phd is supposed to do, and a large part of what doing a literature review is all abou

I think 'becoming a historian of the craft' is very much what a first year phd is supposed to do, and a large part of what doing a literature review is all about. It helps crystallise what exactly your research questions should be, and what experiments you should do to answer the questions. I think this article will be useful for the author to see how their thinking has evolved over time when they read it back in 3 or 4 years, because I think a lot of changes happen to a persons thought over a phd.