A Process for Composing | |
What is composing? | |
What is rhetoric? | |
Audience | |
Purpose | |
Context | |
Strategies | |
Steps in the composing process | |
Understanding your project or assignment | |
Understanding a class assignment | |
Understanding other projects | |
Finding and Developing Ideas | |
Composing to learn, composing to communicate | |
How research develops | |
Getting started with research | |
Finding a topic | |
Narrowing a topic? | |
How do you know when you have a narrowed topic? | |
Strategies for narrowing a topic | |
Questions to guide research | |
Developing a range of questions to guide your research | |
Kinds of sources, kinds of research | |
Kinds of research | |
Developing search strategies | |
Choosing sources | |
Choosing sources-books | |
Choosing sources-periodicals | |
Choosing sources-web pages | |
How to find sources | |
Library research | |
Using library indexes | |
Using library catalogs | |
Using library journal databases | |
Steps in using databases | |
Online research | |
Search engines and directories | |
Online references | |
Online newspapers | |
Government sources | |
Archival and special collection sources | |
Field research sources | |
Interviews | |
Observations | |
Surveys | |
What if you can't find anythi | |
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