Research Catalog

The craft of research

Title
The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.
Author
Booth, Wayne C.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Colomb, Gregory G.
  • Williams, Joseph M.
Description
xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
Subject
  • Research > Methodology
  • Technical writing
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Research, researchers, and readers -- Prologue: Becoming a researcher -- Thinking in print: Uses of research, public and private -- Connecting with your reader: (Re-)creating yourself and your audience -- Asking questions, finding answers -- Prologue: Planning your project - an overview -- From topics to questions -- From questions to a problem -- From problems to sources -- Engaging sources -- Making a claim and supporting it -- Prologue: Assembling a research argument -- Making good arguments: Overview -- Making claims -- Assembling reasons and evidence -- Acknowledgments and responses -- Warrants -- Planning, drafting, and revising -- Prologue: Planning again -- Planning -- Drafting your report -- Revising your organization and argument -- Communicating evidence visually -- Introductions and conclusions-- Revising style: Telling your story clearly -- Some last considerations.
ISBN
  • 9780226065656 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226065650 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226065663 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226065669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007042761
OCLC
  • ocn175218191
  • SCSB-1477056
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library