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Sometimes this is unmissable. If you are in a lecture on language acquisition, you are very likely to come across the fact that Skinner (1957) and Chomsky (1959) expressed divergent views. Locating the key debate is at its easiest when one article directly comments on another, as with Chomsky’s (1959) review of Skinner’s (1957) book, or Zimbardo’s (2006) response to Haslam and Reicher’s (2006) paper on their televised prison experiment. But it can be more subtle. This is the case when we come across ideas that are incompatible, but one does not specifically name and critique the other. In this case, we are looking at one perspective or idea and working out the implications it might have for our target idea, or focus. In doing this we are making the connection ourselves.