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The Craft of Research, 2nd Editionby Wayne C. Booth and Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Since 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to The Craft of Research for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Now, master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present a completely revised and updated version of their classic handbook. 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 an orchestrated conversation between a researcher and a reader. Along with many other topics, The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of thoughtful yet critical readers and to 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 than in the first edition. New distinctions are made among reasons, evidence, and reports of evidence. The concepts of qualifications and rebuttals are 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. The new edition retains the accessibility, insights, and directness that have made The Craft of Research an indispensable guide for anyone doing research, from students in high school through advanced graduate study to businesspeople and government employees. The authors demonstrate convincingly that researching and reporting skills can be learned and used by all who undertake research projects. New to this edition: Extensive coverage of how to do research on the internet, including how to evaluate and test the reliability of sources New information on the visual representation of data Expanded bibliography with many electronic sources Synopsis:Along with many other topics "The craft of research" explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question "So what?" Synopsis:Since 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to "The Craft of Research" for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Now, master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present a completely revised and updated version of their classic handbook.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 an orchestrated conversation between a researcher and a reader. Along with many other topics, "The Craft of Research" explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of thoughtful yet critical readers and to 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 than in the firstedition. New distinctions are made among "reasons," "evidence," and "reports of evidence." The concepts of "qualifications and rebuttals" are recast as "acknowledgment and response." Part 4 covers drafting and revising, and offers new information on the visual representation of About the AuthorWayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Gregory G. Colomb is a professor of the English language and literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic. Joseph M. Williams is a professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Together Colomb and Williams have written The Craft of Argument. Table of ContentsPreface
I RESEARCH, RESEARCHERS, AND READERS PROLOGUE: STARTING A RESEARCH PROJECT 1 Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private 1.1 What Is Research? 1.2 Why Write It Up? 1.3 Why a Formal Report? 1.4 Conclusion 2 Connecting with Your Reader: (Re)Creating Your Self and Your Audience 2.1 Creating Roles for Writers and Readers 2.2 Creating a Relationship with Your Reader: Your Role 2.3 Creating the Other Half of the Relationship: The Readers Role 2.4 Writing in Groups 2.5 Managing the Unavoidable Problem of Inexperience Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Readers II ASKING QUESTIONS, FINDING ANSWERS PROLOGUE: PLANNING YOUR PROJECT 3 From Topics to Questions 3.1 From an Interest to a Topic 3.2 From a Broad Topic to a Focused One 3.3 From a Focused Topic to Questions 3.4 From a Merely Interesting Question to Its Wider Significance Quick Tip: Finding Topics 4 From Questions to Problems 4.1 Problems, Problems, Problems 4.2 The Common Structure of Problems 4.3 Finding a Good Research Problem 4.4 Summary: The Problem of the Problem Quick Tip: Disagreeing with Your Sources 5 From Problems to Sources 5.1 Screening Sources for Reliability 5.2 Locating Printed and Recorded Sources 5.3 Finding Sources on the Internet 5.4 Gathering Data Directly from People 5.5 Bibliographic Trails 5.6 What You Find 6 Using Sources 6.1 Three Uses for Sources 6.2 Read Generously but Critically 6.3 Preserving What You Find 6.4 Get Help Quick Tip: Speedy Reading III MAKING A CLAIM AND SUPPORTING IT PROLOGUE: PULLING TOGETHER YOUR ARGUMENT 7 Making Good Arguments: An Overview 7.1 Argument and Conversation 7.2 Basing Claims on Reasons 7.3 Basing Reasons on Evidence 7.4 Acknowledging and Responding to Alternatives 7.5 Warranting the Relevance of Reasons 7.6 Building Complex Arguments Out of Simple Ones 7.7 Arguments and Your Ethos Quick Tip: Designing Arguments Not for Yourself but for Your Readers: Two Common Pitfalls 8 Claims 8.1 What Kind of Claim? 8.2 Evaluating Your Claim Quick Tip: Qualifying Claims to Enhance Your Credibility 9 Reasons and Evidence 9.1 Using Reasons to Plan Your Argument 9.2 The Slippery Distinction between Reasons and Evidence 9.3 Evidence vs. Reports of Evidence 9.4 Select the Right Form for Reporting Evidence 9.5 Reliable Evidence Quick Tip: Showing the Relevance of Evidence 10 Acknowledgments and Responses 10.1 Questioning Your Argument 10.2 Finding Alternatives to Your Argument 10.3 Deciding What to Acknowledge 10.4 Responses as Subordinate Arguments Quick Tip: The Vocabulary of Acknowledgment and Response 11 Warrants 11.1 How Warrants Work 11.2 What Warrants Look Like 11.3 Knowing When to State a Warrant 11.4 Testing Your 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 12.1 Preliminaries to Drafting 12.2 Planning: Four Traps to Avoid 12.3 A Plan for Drafting 12.4 The Pitfall to Avoid at All Costs: Plagiarism 12.5 The Next Step Quick Tip: Using Quotation and Paraphrase 13 Revising Your Organization and Argument 13.1 Thinking Like a Reader 13.2 Analyzing and Revising Your Overall Organization 13.3 Revising Your Argument 13.4 The Last Step Quick Tip: Titles and Abstracts 14 Introductions and Conclusions 14.1 The Three Elements of an Introduction 14.2 Establish Common Ground 14.3 State Your Problem 14.4 State Your Response 14.5 Fast or Slow? 14.6 Organizing the Whole Introduction 14.7 Conclusions Quick Tip: Opening and Closing Words 15 Communicating Evidence Visually 15.1 Visual or Verbal? 15.2 Tables vs. Figures 15.3 Constructing Tables 15.4 Constructing Figures 15.5 Visual Communication and Ethics 15.6 Using Graphics as an Aid to Thinking 16 Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly 16.1 Judging Style 16.2 A First Principle: Stories and Grammar 16.3 A Second Principle: Old Before New 16.4 Choosing between Active and Passive 16.5 A Final Principle: Complexity Last 16.6 Spit and Polish Quick Tip: The Quickest Revision V SOME LAST CONSIDERATIONS The Ethics of Research A Postscript for Teachers An Appendix on Finding Sources General Sources Special Sources A Note on Some of Our Sources Index What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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