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A Note to Students | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
Research and Writing: From Planning to Production | |
Overview of Part I | p. 3 |
What Research Is and How Researchers Think about It | p. 5 |
How Researchers Think about Their Aims | |
Three Kinds of Questions That Researchers Ask | |
Moving from a Topic to a Question to a Working Hypothesis | p. 12 |
Find a Question in Your Topic | |
Propose Some Working Answers | |
Build a Storyboard to Plan and Guide Your Work | |
Organize a Writing Support Group | |
Finding Useful Sources | p. 24 |
Understand the Kinds of Sources Readers Expect You to Use | |
Record Your Sources Fully, Accurately, and Appropriately | |
Search for Sources Systematically | |
Evaluate Sources for Relevance and Reliability | |
Look beyond the Usual Kinds of References | |
Engaging Sources | p. 36 |
Read Generously to Understand, Then Critically to Engage and Evaluate | |
Take Notes Systematically | |
Take Useful Notes | |
Write as You Read | |
Review Your Progress | |
Manage Moments of Normal Panic | |
Planning Your Argument | p. 48 |
What a Research Argument Is and Is Not | |
Build Your Argument around Answers to Readers' Questions | |
Turn Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim | |
Assemble the Elements of Your Argument | |
Distinguish Arguments Based on Evidence from Arguments Based on Warrants | |
Assemble an Argument | |
Planning a First Draft | p. 62 |
Avoid Unhelpful Plans | |
Create a Plan That Meets Your Readers' Needs | |
File Away Leftovers | |
Drafting Your Report | p. 71 |
Draft in the Way That Feels Most Comfortable | |
Develop Productive Drafting Habits | |
Use Your Key Terms to Keep Yourself on Track | |
Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately | |
Integrate Quotations into Your Text | |
Use Footnotes and Endnotes Judiciously | |
Interpret Complex or Detailed Evidence before You Offer It | |
Be Open to Surprises | |
Guard against Inadvertent Plagiarism | |
Guard against Inappropriate Assistance | |
Work through Chronic Procrastination and Writer's Block | |
Presenting Evidence in Tables and Figures | p. 82 |
Choose Verbal or Visual Representations | |
Choose the Most Effective Graphic | |
Design Tables and Figures | |
Communicate Data Ethically | |
Revising Your Draft | p. 98 |
Check Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Claim | |
Make Sure the Body of Your Report Is Coherent | |
Check Your Paragraphs | |
Let Your Draft Cool, Then Paraphrase It | |
Writing Your Final Introduction and Conclusion | p. 102 |
Draft Your Final Introduction | |
Draft Your Final Conclusion | |
Write Your Title Last | |
Revising Sentences | p. 109 |
Focus on the First Seven or Eight Words of a Sentence | |
Diagnose What You Read | |
Choose the Right Word | |
Polish It Off | |
Give It Up and Print It Out | |
Learning from Your Returned Paper | p. 120 |
Find General Principles in Specific Comments | |
Talk to Your Instructor | |
Presenting Research in Alternative Forums | p. 122 |
Plan Your Oral Presentation | |
Design Your Presentation to Be Listened To | |
Plan Your Poster Presentation | |
Plan Your Conference Proposal | |
On the Spirit of Research | p. 129 |
Source Citation | |
General Introduction to Citation Practices | p. 133 |
Reasons for Citing Your Sources | |
The Requirements of Citation | |
Two Citation Styles | |
Citation of Electronic Sources | |
Preparation of Citations | |
A Word on Citation Software | |
Notes-Bibliography Style: The Basic Form | p. 141 |
Basic Patterns | |
Bibliographies | |
Notes | |
Short Forms for Notes | |
Notes-Bibliography Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources | p. 160 |
Books | |
Journal Articles | |
Magazine Articles | |
Newspaper Articles | |
Additional Types of Published Sources | |
Unpublished Sources | |
Informally Published Electronic Sources | |
Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts | |
Public Documents | |
One Source Quoted in Another | |
Parenthetical Citations-Reference List Style: The Basic Form | p. 216 |
Basic Patterns | |
Reference Lists | |
Parenthetical Citations | |
Parenthetical Citations-Reference List Style: Citing Specific Types of Sources | p. 227 |
Books | |
Journal Articles | |
Magazine Articles | |
Newspaper Articles | |
Additional Types of Published Sources | |
Unpublished Sources | |
Informally Published Electronic Sources | |
Sources in the Visual and Performing Arts | |
Public Documents | |
One Source Quoted in Another | |
Style | |
Spelling | p. 283 |
Plurals | |
Possessives | |
Compounds and Words Formed with Prefixes | |
Line Breaks | |
Punctuation | p. 295 |
Period | |
Comma | |
Semicolon | |
Colon | |
Question Mark | |
Exclamation Point | |
Hyphen and Dashes | |
Parentheses and Brackets | |
Slashes | |
Quotation Marks | |
Multiple Punctuation Marks | |
Names, Special Terms, and Titles of Works | p. 308 |
Names | |
Special Terms | |
Titles of Works | |
Numbers | p. 318 |
Words or Numerals? | |
Plurals and Punctuation | |
Date Systems | |
Numbers Used outside the Text | |
Abbreviations | p. 331 |
General Principles | |
Names and Titles | |
Geographical Terms | |
Time and Dates | |
Units of Measure | |
The Bible and Other Sacred Works | |
Abbreviations in Citations and Other Scholarly Contexts | |
Quotations | p. 347 |
Quoting Accurately and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
Incorporating Quotations into Your Text | |
Modifying Quotations | |
Tables and Figures | p. 359 |
General Issues | |
Tables | |
Figures | |
Paper Format and Submission | p. 373 |
General Format Requirements | |
Format Requirements for Specific Elements | |
Submission Requirements | |
Bibliography | p. 409 |
Authors | p. 437 |
Index | p. 439 |
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