The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.
This book is a resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators, the authors present an updated third edition of their classic handbook which explains how to build an argument that...
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2008.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Research, researchers, and readers
- Prologue: Becoming a researcher
- Thinking in print: Uses of research, public and private
- Connecting with your reader: (Re- )creating yourself and your audience
- Asking questions, finding answers
- Prologue: Planning your project
- an overview
- From topics to questions
- From questions to a problem
- From problems to sources
- Engaging sources
- Making a claim and supporting it
- Prologue: Assembling a research argument
- Making good arguments: Overview
- Making claims
- Assembling reasons and evidence
- Acknowledgments and responses
- Warrants
- Planning, drafting, and revising
- Prologue: Planning again
- Planning
- Drafting your report
- Revising your organization and argument
- Communicating evidence visually
- Introductions and conclusions-- Revising style: Telling your story clearly
- Some last considerations.