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The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.

By: Booth, Wayne C.
Contributor(s): Colomb, Gregory G | Williams, Joseph M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780226065656 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226065650 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226065663 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226065669 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Research -- Methodology | Technical writingOnline resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Non-fiction Q180.55.B66 2008 (Browse shelf) Available MA-SCHOOL OF GRADUATE AND ADVANCED STUDIES
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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