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.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

• Colomb, Gregory G
• Williams, Joseph M

Series Statement

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Uniform Title

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.

Subject

• Research > Methodology
• Technical writing

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