A Process for Composing | |
What is composing? | |
What is rhetoric? | |
Audience Purpose Context | |
Strategies Rhetoric and a process for composing a research paper | |
Understanding your project or assignment | |
Findingideas | |
Composing to learn and composing to communicate | |
A research process Getting started with research | |
Finding a topic Narrowing a topic | |
How do you know when you have a narrowed topic? | |
Other strategies for narrowing a topic Questions to guide research | |
Using research questions to develop a topic Kinds of sources | |
kinds of research | |
Kinds of research Determining where to research Choosing sources | |
Choosing sources-books | |
Choosing sources-periodicals | |
Choosing sources-webpages | |
Findingsources | |
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 canrsquo;t find anything on your narrowed topic? Keeping track of sources | |
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