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The Wadsworth Guide to Research
ISBN: 9781413030327 | 1413030327
Edition: 1st Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 9/5/2008
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Develop the research skills you need for success in academic, career, and everyday situations with THE WADSWORTH GUIDE TO RESEARCH. Recognizing that technology is a part of your daily life, the authors will show you how to apply the research skills you use every day (buying a car, choosing a movie, etc.) to academic and professional settings. Annotated student samples, Research in Action scenarios, and Techno Tips show you the "how" and "why" of researching, and the key research technologies important to success.
| Preparing for Research | |
| Why Research? Recognizing Research Contexts | |
| Reflect: How Have You Conducted Research Before? Identifying Research Purposes | |
| Reflect: How Do Research Processes Compare? Considering Elements of the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Reflect: How Do Rhetorical Situations Compare? Entering a Conversation | |
| Techno Tip: Listen to Conversations in Progress | |
| Research and Writing ... MORE | |
| Processes and Rhetorical Situations | |
| Myths about Writing and Research Processes | |
| Writing Processes | |
| Foundations in Classical Rhetoric | |
| Invention | |
| Researching | |
| Drafting | |
| Reflect: How Do You Write Best? Peer Review | |
| Techno Tip: Conduct Peer Reviews | |
| Revising | |
| Editing | |
| Techno Tip: Read Your Writing Out Loud Proofreading | |
| Reflect: What Are Your Writing Idiosyncrasies? Publishing | |
| Research Processes | |
| Disciplinary Approaches | |
| Write: Discover Disciplinary Patterns and Conventions | |
| Identifying a Topic | |
| Analyzing the Writing Situation | |
| Taking Advantage of Kairos | |
| Write: Identify Kairos | |
| Considering the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Write: Analyze the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Generating Topics | |
| Write: What's Important to You? Write: Generate Topic Ideas | |
| Write: Consider Audience and Purpose | |
| Techno Tip: Use Technology to Explore What You Already Know | |
| Exploring and Narrowing a Potential Topic | |
| Techno Tip: Use the Internet to Explore a Possible Topic | |
| Reflect: How Can I Make a Topic Manageable? Write: Focus Your Research Topic | |
| Developing a Research Question | |
| Write: Write a Research Question | |
| Situating the Writer in the Research | |
| Reflect: What Is the Writer's Place in the Rhetorical Situation? Your Knowledge of Your Topic | |
| Write: Take an Inventory of What You Know | |
| Research in Progress: Writing a Research Proposal | |
| The Assignment | |
| Features of a Research Proposal | |
| Staring Your Research Proposal | |
| Examples of Research Proposals | |
| Example 1: Tsz Lee "Can I Have a Clone?" | |
| Example 2: Megan Trevizo, "Is Breast Always Best?" | |
| Conducting Research | |
| Finding Resources through Secondary Research | |
| Conducting Research | |
| Identifying the Information You Need to Find | |
| Primary and Secondary Research | |
| Conducting Primary or Secondary Research | |
| Reflect: Should You Conduct Primary or Secondary Research? Locating Resources | |
| Specific Search Terms | |
| Internet Search Engines | |
| Expanding and Focusing Search Terms | |
| Write: List Alternative Key Terms | |
| Write: Develop a List of Search Terms | |
| Search Engines and Web Directories | |
| Techno Tip: Refine Your Search Results | |
| Types of Resources | |
| How Texts Change over Time | |
| How Texts Are Reviewed | |
| Library Resources vs | |
| Internet Resources | |
| Techno Tip: Edit and Review the History of a Wikipedia Page | |
| Static Resources | |
| Books | |
| Write: Search the Library Catalog | |
| Websites | |
| Audio and Video Files | |
| Microfilm and Microfiche | |
| Syndicated Resources | |
| Periodicals | |
| Write: Search for Resources in Periodicals | |
| Podcasts | |
| Blogs and RSS Feeds | |
| Techno Tip: Set up RSS Feeds | |
| Dynamic Resources | |
| Email Lists and Newsgroups | |
| Social Networking Sites | |
| Online Communities | |
| Wikis | |
| Write: Search for a Variety of Resources | |
| Developing a Research Plan | |
| Reflect: What's Your Plan? | |
| Conducting Primary Research | |
| Observations | |
| Including Observation in Your Research Plan | |
| Conducting an Observation | |
| Write: Practice Observing Your Subject | |
| Techno Tip: Record Your Observation | |
| Interviews | |
| Including Interviews in Your Research Plan | |
| Conducting an Interview | |
| Write: Draft Interview Questions | |
| Techno Tip: Conduct Interviews Online | |
| Surveys | |
| Including a Survey in Your Research Plan | |
| Conducting a Survey | |
| Write: Draft Survey Questions | |
| Reflect: Is the Survey Valid and Reliable? Distributing Surveys and Collecting Responses | |
| Techno Tip: Consider Online Survey Services | |
| Ethical Considerations | |
| Techno Tip: Gather Data Online | |
| Interpretation of Data | |
| Analyzing Quantitative Data | |
| Analyzing Qualitative Data | |
| Presenting the Results of Primary Research | |
| Write: Decide What Type of Primary Data to Collect | |
| Reflect: What Does Your Research Plan Look Like Now? | |
| Reading Resources Rhe | |
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