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The craft of research /

Booth, Wayne C.

The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald - Fourth edition - xvi, 316 pàgines : gràfics ; 22 cm - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing . - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing .

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research, resarcehrs, and readers : prologue: becoming a researcher : thinking in print ; what is research ; why write it up? ; why a formal paper? ; writing is thiking : connecting with your reader: creating a role for yourelf and your readers ; conversing with your readers ; understanding your role ; imagining your readers' role ; a checklist for understanding your readers -- asking questions, finding answers : planning your project - an overview : from tipics to questions ; from an interest to a topic ; from a broad topic to a focused one ; from a focused topic to questions ; the most significant question: so what? ; finding topics : from questions to a problem ; understanding research problems ; understanding the common structure of problems ; finding a good research problem ; learning to work with problems ; manage the unavoidable problem of inexperience : from problems to sources ; three kinds of sources and their uses ; navigating the twenty-first century library ; locating sources on the internet ; evaluating sources for relevance and reliability ; looking beyond predictable sources ; using people to further your research ; the ethics of using people as sources of data : engaging sources ; recording complete bibliographic information ; engaging sources actively ; reading for a problem ; reading for arguments ; reading for data and support ; taking notes ; annotating your sources ; manage moments of normal anxiety -- making an argument : assembling a research argument : making good arguments: an overview ; argument as a conversation with readers ; supporting your claim ; acknowledging and responding to anticipated questions and objections ; connecting claims and reasons with warrants ; building a comple argument out of simple ones ; creating an ethos by thickening your argument ; a common mistake - falling back on what you know : making claims ; determining the kind of claim you should make ; evaluation your claim ; qualifying claims to enhance your credibility : essembling your reasons and evidence ; using reasons to plan your argument ; distinguishing evidence from reasons ; distinguishing evidence from reports of it ; evaluation your evidence : acknowledgements and responses ; questioning your argument as your readers will ; imagining alternatives to your argument ; deciding what to acknowledge ; framing your responses as subordinate arguments ; the vocabulary of acknowledgement and response ; three predictable disagreements : warrants ; warrants in everyday reasoning ; warrants in academic arguments ; understanding the logic of warrants ; testing warrants ; knowing when to state a warrant ; using warrants to test your arguments ; challenging others' warrants ; reasons, evidence, and warrants -- writing your arguent : planning again : planning and drafting ; planning your paper ; avoiding three common but flawed plans ; turning your plan into a draft ; work through provastination and writer's block : organizing your argument ; thinking like a reader ; revising your frame ; revising your argument ; revising the organization of your paper ; checking your draft cool, then paraphrasing it ; abstracts :incorporating sources ; quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing appropriately ; integrating direct quotations into your text ; showing readers how evidence is relevant ; the social importance of citing sources ; four common citation styles ; guarding against inadvertent plagiarism ; indicating citations in your paper : communicating evidence visually ; choosing visual or verbal representations ; choosing the most effective graphic ; designing tables, charts, and graphs ; specific guidelines for tables, bar charts, and line graphs ; communicating data ethically : introductions and conclusions ; the common structure of untroductions ; step 1: establishing a context ; step 2: stating your problem ; step 3: stating your response ; setting the right pace ; organizing the whole introduction ; finding your first few words ; writing your conclusion ; tiles : revising style: telling your story clearly ; judging style ; the girst two principles of clear writing ; a thir principle: old before new ; choosing between the active and passive voice ; a final principle: complexity last ; spit and polish ; the quickest revision strategy : some last considerations ; the ethics of research ; a postscript for teachers ; appendix: bibliographical resources

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Escriptura--Tècnica
Investigació--Metodologia
Escrits científics i tècnics--Redacció
Redacció d'escrits tècnics
Investigació
Metodologia

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