The craft of research /
By: Booth, Wayne C.
Contributor(s): Colomb, Gregory G | Williams, Joseph M.
Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago, 2008Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226065650; 9780226065656:; 9780226065656; 9780226065663; 0226065669.Subject(s): Research -- Methodology | Technical writingDDC classification: 001.42Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 001.42 BOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Lost Checked out | 14/03/2022 | 0064721 |
Includes bibliography (pp. 283-311) and index.
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.
This guide to research at all levels includes an expanded discussion of the essential early stages of a research task - planning and drafting a paper. The authors have also updated their section on electronic research, emphasizing the need to distinguish between trustworthy and less reliable sources.