Preface: The Aims of This Edition |
Our Debts |
Research, Researchers, and Readers / I: |
Prologue: Becoming a Researcher |
Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private / 1: |
What Is Research? / 1.1: |
Why Write It Up? / 1.2: |
Why a Formal Report? / 1.3: |
Writing Is Thinking / 1.4: |
Connecting with Your Reader: (Re-)Creating Yourself and Your Readers / 2: |
Creating Roles for Yourself and Your Readers / 2.1: |
Understanding Your Role / 2.2: |
Imagining Your Reader's Role / 2.3: |
Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Readers |
Asking Questions, Finding Answers / II: |
Prologue: Planning Your Project-An Overview |
Quick Tip: Creating a Writing Group |
From Topics to Questions / 3: |
From an Interest to a Topic / 3.1: |
From a Broad Topic to a Focused One / 3.2: |
From a Focused Topic to Questions / 3.3: |
From a Question to Its Significance / 3.4: |
Quick Tip: Finding Topics |
From Questions to a Problem / 4: |
Distinguishing Practical and Research Problems / 4.1: |
Understanding the Common Structure of Problems / 4.2: |
Finding a Good Research Problem / 4.3: |
Learning to Work with Problems / 4.4: |
Quick Tip: Manage the Unavoidable Problem of Inexperience |
From Problems to Sources / 5: |
Knowing How to Use Three Kinds of Sources / 5.1: |
Locating Sources through a Library / 5.2: |
Locating Sources on the Internet / 5.3: |
Evaluating Sources for Relevance and Reliability / 5.4: |
Following Bibliographical Trails / 5.5: |
Looking beyond Predictable Sources / 5.6: |
Using People as Primary Sources / 5.7: |
Quick Tip: The Ethics of Using People as Sources of Data |
Engaging Sources / 6: |
Knowing What Kind of Evidence to Look For / 6.1: |
Record Complete Bibliographical Data / 6.2: |
Engaging Sources Actively / 6.3: |
Using Secondary Sources to Find a Problem / 6.4: |
Using Secondary Sources to Plan Your Argument / 6.5: |
Recording What You Find / 6.6: |
Quick Tip: Manage Moments of Normal Anxiety |
Making a Claim and Supporting IT / III: |
Prologue: Assembling a Research Argument |
Making Good Arguments: An Overview / 7: |
Argument as a Conversation with Readers / 7.1: |
Supporting Your Claim / 7.2: |
Acknowledging and Responding to Anticipated Questions and Objections / 7.3: |
Warranting the Relevance of Your Reasons / 7.4: |
Building a Complex Argument Out of Simple Ones / 7.5: |
Creating an Ethos by Thickening Your Argument / 7.6: |
Quick Tip: A Common Mistake-Falling Back on What You Know |
Making Claims / 8: |
Determining the Kind of Claim You Should Make / 8.1: |
Evaluating Your Claim / 8.2: |
Quick Tip: Qualifying Claims to Enhance Your Credibility |
Assembling Reasons and Evidence / 9: |
Using Reasons to Plan Your Argument / 9.1: |
Distinguishing Evidence from Reasons / 9.2: |
Distinguishing Evidence from Reports of It / 9.3: |
Evaluating Your Evidence / 9.4: |
Acknowledgments and Responses / 10: |
Questioning Your Argument as Your Readers Will / 10.1: |
Imagining Alternatives to Your Argument / 10.2: |
Deciding What to Acknowledge / 10.3: |
Framing Your Responses as Subordinate Arguments / 10.4: |
The Vocabulary of Acknowledgment and Response / 10.5: |
Quick Tip: Three Predictable Disagreements |
Warrants / 11: |
Warrants in Everyday Reasoning / 11.1: |
Warrants in Academic Arguments / 11.2: |
Understanding the Logic of Warrants / 11.3: |
Testing Whether a Warrant Is Reliable / 11.4: |
Knowing When to State a Warrant / 11.5: |
Challenging Others' Warrants / 11.6: |
Quick Tip: Two Kinds of Arguments |
Planning, Drafting, and Revising / IV: |
Prologue: Planning Again |
Quick Tip: Outlining and Storyboarding |
Planning / 12: |
Avoid Three Common but Flawed Plans / 12.1: |
Planning Your Report / 12.2: |
Drafting Your Report / 13: |
Draft in a Way That Feels Comfortable / 13.1: |
Use Key Words to Keep Yourself on Track / 13.2: |
Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately / 13.3: |
Integrating Direct Quotations into Your Text / 13.4: |
Show Readers How Evidence Is Relevant / 13.5: |
Guard against Inadvertent Plagiarism / 13.6: |
The Social Importance of Citing Sources / 13.7: |
Four Common Citation Styles / 13.8: |
Work through Procrastination and Writer's Block / 13.9: |
Quick Tip: Indicating Citations in Your Text |
Revising Your Organization and Argument / 14: |
Thinking Like a Reader / 14.1: |
Revising the Frame of Your Report / 14.2: |
Revising Your Argument / 14.3: |
Revising the Organization of Your Report / 14.4: |
Check Your Paragraphs / 14.5: |
Let Your Draft Cool, Then Paraphrase It / 14.6: |
Quick Tip: Abstracts |
Communicating Evidence Visually / 15: |
Choosing Visual or Verbal Representations / 15.1: |
Choosing the Most Effective Graphic / 15.2: |
Designing Tables, Charts, and Graphs / 15.3: |
Specific Guidelines for Tables, Bar Charts, and Line Graphs / 15.4: |
Communicating Data Ethically / 15.5: |
Introductions and Conclusions / 16: |
The Common Structure of Introductions / 16.1: |
Step 1: Establish Common Ground / 16.2: |
Step 2: State Your Problem / 16.3: |
Step 3: State Your Response / 16.4: |
Setting the Right Pace for Your Introduction / 16.5: |
Writing Your Conclusion / 16.6: |
Finding Your First Few Words / 16.7: |
Finding Your Last Few Words / 16.8: |
Quick Tip: Titles |
Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly / 17: |
Judging Style / 17.1: |
The First Two Principles of Clear Writing / 17.2: |
A Third Principle: Old before New / 17.3: |
Choosing between Active and Passive / 17.4: |
A Final Principle: Complexity Last / 17.5: |
Spit and Polish / 17.6: |
Quick Tip: The Quickest Revision Strategy |
Some Last Considerations / V: |
The Ethics of Research |
A Postscript for Teachers |
Bibliographical Resources / Appendix: |
Index |
Preface: The Aims of This Edition |
Our Debts |
Research, Researchers, and Readers / I: |