Academic Research and Writing Inquiry and Argument in College
ISBN: 9780321091840 | 0321091841
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 11/20/2009
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This text shows that research is important beyond the classroom and is a necessary component in any career. Beginning with coverage of skills and techniques, this comprehensive text then moves into specific kinds of academic research tasks, showing the generic features and constraints of academic writing. The main issues necessary for understanding how to read and construct research projects are discussed, including plagiarism, copyright and patents, conventions used by different discourse communities, and how writers use sources in different w... MORE
| 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... MORE | |
| 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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