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Preparing for research | |
Owning your research | |
Understand the benefits | |
Tap personal and professional interests | |
Develop an interest inventory | |
Find space in the assignment | |
Make room in your schedule | |
Read for discovery | |
Raise questions | |
Develop confidence: What do you already know? | |
Consider presenting your research in an alternate form | |
Discuss potential topics with friends and classmates | |
Reading sources | |
Reading to comprehend | |
Reading to reflect | |
Reading to write | |
Exploring and sharpening your topic | |
Exploring research topics | |
Focusing a topic | |
Developing a research question | |
Writing a research proposal | |
The typical components of a research proposal | |
Analyzing the rhetorical situation | |
Drafting research questions and hypotheses | |
Providing a rationale | |
Establishing methods | |
Setting a schedule | |
Choosing research sources strategically | |
Building a working bibliography | |
Annotating a working bibliography | |
Developing a literature review | |
Formatting the project proposal Sample project proposal | |
Finding and processing information | |
Gathering information | |
Choosing research sources strategically | |
Finding periodicals using databases and indexes | |
Finding reference works | |
Finding books | |
Finding government publications and other documents | |
Finding sources in special collections: Rare books, manuscripts, and archives | |
Finding multimedia sources | |
Meeting the challenges of online research | |
Web and database searches: Developing search strategies | |
Finding other electronic sources | |
Finding multimedia sources online | |
Evaluating information | |
Evaluating for relevance | |
Evaluating for credibility | |
Evaluating for reliability | |
Evaluating logic | |
Evaluating online texts | |
Evaluating visual sources | |
Evaluating oral presentations | |
Taking notes and keeping records | |
Choosing an organizer to fit your work style | |
Keeping the trail: your search notes | |
What to include in research notes | |
Taking content notes | |
aking notes to avoid plagiarizing and patchwriting | |
Citing your sources and avoiding plagiarism | |
What are a writer’s responsibilities? | |
What does acknowledging sources involve? | |
What you do have to cite | |
What you do not have to cite | |
Why are there so many ways to cite? | |
Drafting to avoid plagiarizing and patchwriting | |
Getting permissions | |
Collaboration and source use | |
Writing an annotated bibliography | |
What is an annotated bibliography and why write one? | |
The citation | |
The annotation | |
Formatting the annotated bibliography | |
Sample student annotated bibliography | |
Developing new information | |
Archives and primary documents | |
Interviews | |
Observation | |
Surveys | |
Getting organized | |
Writing and refining the thesis | |
Predrafting a hypothesis | |
Placing the hypothesis in dialogue with sources | |
Drafting a thesis statement | |
Refining the thesis | |
Organizing your research | |
Organize your materials and notes | |
Arrange your ideas into logical groupings | |
Consider the project's overall shape and genre | |
Choose an organizational strategy | |
Spatial order | |
Chronological (or time) order | |
General to specific or specific to general order | |
Problem to solution or solution to problem | |
Familiar to unfamiliar or unfamiliar to familiar | |
Climactic, journalists', or Nestorian order | |
Outlining | |
Informal | |
Formal | |
Check for unity and coherence | |
Outlining exercise | |
For the visual thinker | |
Clusters and maps | |
Arrange your ideas from general to specific: Trees | |
Storyboards (for multimedia presentations of research) | |
Site maps (for websites) | |
Writing your project | |
Drafting your project | |
Writing a first draft | |
Getting ready: Allocating time and finding the right place | |
Starting to write | |
Overcoming writer's block | |
Working on paragraphs | |
Writing relevant paragraphs | |
Writing unified paragraphs | |
Focus the paragraph on a central idea and delete irrelevant details. | |
Place the topic sentence appropriately. | |
Leave the main idea unstated | |
Writing coherent paragraphs | |
Organize your paragraphs logically, spatially, or chronologically | |
Use transitions within paragraphs. | |
Repeat words, phrases, and sentence structures | |
Use pronouns and synonyms to refer to words used earlier. | |
Combine techniques | |
Writing fully developed paragraphs | |
Support general statements with specific details: Reasons, facts, statistics, examples. | |
Use rhetorical patterns to develop paragraphs | |
Writing introductory paragraphs | |
Writing concluding paragraphs | |
Connecting paragraphs | |
Making a visual appeal: Rational, ethical, emotional | |
Sample student draft | |
Creating a website | |
Publishing and maintaining a website | |
Drafting collaboratively | |
Supporting your claims and entering conversations | |
Explaining and supporting your ideas: reasons and evidence | |
Offering reasons to support your thesis | |
Providing evidence to defend your claims | |
Incorporating the counterevidence to your claims | |
Using visuals as support | |
Incorporating like an expert | |
Evaluation | |
Analysis | |
Synthesizing ideas and information | |
Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing | |
Signaling sources | |
Integrating quotations | |
Acknowledging sources | |
Creating transparent, elegant citations | |
Revising globally and locally | |
Revising globally: Learning to re-see | |
Gain distance | |
Reread your draft | |
Revise for focus | |
Revise for audience | |
Revise for organization | |
Revise for development | |
Reconsider your title | |
Revising locally: Words and sentences | |
Choose words with care | |
denotation | |
connotation | |
levels of formality and appropriate usage | |
general and specific language | |
Craft grammatically correct, clear, varied, and concise sentences | |
clear and correct sentences | |
sentence variety and conciseness | |
Make a personalized editing checklist | |
Quick reference: revising globally and locally | |
Revising visuals | |
Avoid visual clutter | |
Keep visuals clear and accurate | |
Avoid distorting omissions | |
Don't manipulate | |
Check placement | |
Revising with others | |
The writer's role | |
The reader's role | |
Working with a tutor or instructor | |
Revising and editing a website | |
Proofreading your text | |
Designing and presenting your project (10 single spaced pages) | |
Image matters | |
Image matters to meaning | |
Image matters to readability | |
Image matters to ethos | |
Making design decisions: purpose, audience, context, and genre | |
Purpose | |
Audience | |
Context | |
Genre | |
Looking at models | |
Understanding the principles: CRAP (contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity) | |
Applying the principles | |
Creating an overall impression | |
Planning the layout | |
Formatting the document | |
Designing a website | |
Adding visuals | |
planning for visuals | |
multimedia illustrations | |
Getting It Across: Storyboarding | |
Deciding whether to copy visuals or to create them | |
Obtaining permissions and fair use | |
Incorporating sound and video into multimedia research projects | |
Ten steps for presenting (about 3 pages on presenting), + slide samples | |
Documenting research | |
Conducting research in the disciplines (7 pp single spaced) | |
Comparing the Disciplines | |
Humanities | |
Social Sciences | |
Sciences | |
MLA | |
In-text citations | |
Works cited list | |
APA | |
In-text citations | |
Works cited list | |
Chicago | |
In-text citations | |
Works cited list | |
CSE | |
In-text citations | |
Works cited list | |
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