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Understanding Research: Purpose, Product, and Process | |
Overview: The Purpose of Academic Research | |
Assignment 1-1: Start a Research Notebook | |
Initial Inquiries | |
How Argument Works in Research Writing Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | |
Consensus and Controversy | |
Paradigms and Warrants | |
The Structure of an Academic Argument | |
Analyzing Arguments | |
Logical Fallacies | |
Some Common Fallacies to Notice in Reading and Avoid in Writing | |
Finding the Arguments: Some Basics of Library Research | |
Research and Writing Projects | |
Assignment 1-2: Preliminary Search of the Library to Collect Basic Information | |
Assignment 1-3-A: Investigate Who Does Research and What Part It Plays in Your College or University | |
Assignment 1-3-B (Individual Work): Short Written Profile | |
Assignment 1-2-C (Group Work): Group Oral Report on Findings | |
Interviews as Research | |
Effective Interviewing | |
Assignment 1-4-A: Interviewing Researchers and Users of Research | |
Assignment 1-4-B (Individual Work): Written Repot | |
Assignment 1-4-C (Group Work): Oral Report | |
Closing Inquiries | |
Reading, Evaluating, and Responding to Arguments | |
Overview: Reading and Research | |
Initial Inquiries | |
Reading Complex Arguments | |
Reading for Audience and Purpose | |
Reading Guide | |
Reading for the Argument | |
Reading to See the Construction of the Argument | |
Reading for Information | |
Assignment 2-1-A: Reading Questions and Sentence Summary | |
Reading: Alfie Kohn, "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation," The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
Assignment 2-1-B:Reread, Highlighting for Cues to Audience | |
Evaluating Sources | |
Arguments and Expertise: Peer Review | |
Checklist for Evaluating Sources | |
Sidebar: Codes of Ethics and the Professions | |
Evaluating the Reliability of Online Sources | |
Assignment 2-2: Written Evaluation of the By Alfie Kohn, Based on These Criteria | |
Taking Accurate Research Notes: Quotation, Paraphrase, and Summary | |
Strategies for Note Taking | |
Taking Research Notes From Written or On-Line Text | |
Taking Research Notes on "Real Time" Events | |
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