Research Catalog

Title

The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.

Author

Booth, Wayne C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago press, [2003], ©2003.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

• Colomb, Gregory G.
• Williams, Joseph M.

Description

xv, 329 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Like its predecessor, this new edition reflects the way researchers actually work, in a complex circuit of thinking, writing, revising, and rethinking. It shows how each part of this process influences the others and how a successful research report is a carefully orchestrated conversation between researcher and reader. Among many topics, The Craft of Research explores how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of thoughtful, yet critical readers and respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, "So what?"" "Celebrated by reviewers for its logic and clarity, this popular book retains its five-part structure. Part 1 provides an orientation to the research process and begins the discussion of what motivates researchers and their readers. Part 2 focuses on finding a topic, planning the project, and locating appropriate sources. This section is brought up to date with new information on the role of the Internet in research, including how to find and evaluate sources, avoid their misuse, and test their reliability." "Part 3 explains the art of making an argument and supporting it. The authors have extensively revised this section to present the structure of an argument in clearer and more accessible terms then in the first edition. For example, new distinctions are made among reasons, evidence, and reports of evidence; and the concepts of qualifications and rebuttals, from the first edition, are here recast as acknowledgment and response. Part 4 covers drafting and revising, and offers new information on the visual representation of data. Part 5 concludes the book with an updated discussion of the ethics of research, as well as an expanded bibliography that includes many electronic sources."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Uniform Title

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.

Subjects

• Research
• Writing
• Technical writing
• Research > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Research, Researchers, and Readers -- Prologue: Starting a Research Project -- 1. Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private -- 2. Connecting with Your Reader: (Re)Creating Your Self and Your Audience -- Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Readers -- II. Asking Questions, Finding Answers -- Prologue: Planning Your Project -- 3. From Topics to Questions -- Quick Tip: Finding Topics -- 4. From Questions to Problems -- Quick Tip: Disagreeing with Your Sources -- 5. From Problems to Sources -- 6. Using Sources -- Quick Tip: Speedy Reading -- III. Making a Claim and Supporting It -- Prologue: Pulling Together Your Argument -- 7. Making Good Arguments: An Overview -- Quick Tip: Designing Arguments Not for Yourself but for Your Readers: Two Common Pitfalls -- 8. Claims -- Quick Tip: Qualifying Claims to Enhance Your Credibility -- 9. Reasons and Evidence -- Quick Tip: Showing the Relevance of Evidence -- 10. Acknowledgments and Responses -- Quick Tip: The Vocabulary of Acknowledgment and Response -- 11. Warrants -- Quick Tip: Some Strategies for Challenging Warrants -- IV. Preparing to Draft, Drafting, and Revising -- Prologue: Planning Again -- Quick Tip: Outlining -- 12. Planning and Drafting -- Quick Tip: Using Quotation and Paraphrase -- 13. Revising Your Organization and Argument -- Quick Tip: Titles and Abstracts -- 14. Introductions and Conclusions -- Quick Tip: Opening and Closing Words -- 15. Communicating Evidence Visually -- 16. Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly -- Quick Tip: The Quickest Revision -- V. Some Last Considerations -- The Ethics of Research.

ISBN

• 0226065677 ((cloth) : alk. paper)
• 0226065685 ((paper) : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002015184

OCLC

• 50643834
• ocm50643834
• SCSB-4347338

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries