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With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has guided generations of readers at all levels to become better researchers, thinkers and communicators. The original authors, all of them legendary teachers, believed that research is a communal activity and il...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Booth, Wayne C. (Author), Colomb, Gregory G. (Author), Williams, Joseph M. (Author), Bizup, Joseph, 1966- (Author), FitzGerald, William T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2024].
Edition:Fifth edition.
Series:Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
Subjects:
Research > Methodology.
Technical writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General.
REFERENCE / Research.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : the aims of this edition
  • Introduction : your research and your audience
  • I. Asking questions, seeking answers. Prologue : planning your project : an overview
  • From topics to questions
  • From questions to a problem
  • II. Sources and resources. Prologue : sources and authentic research
  • Finding and evaluating sources
  • Engaging sources
  • III. Making your argument. Prologue : assembling a research argument
  • Making good arguments : an overview
  • Making claims
  • Assembling reasons and evidence
  • Warrants
  • Acknowledgements and responses
  • IV. Delivering your argument. Prologue : planning, writing, and thinking
  • Planning and drafting
  • Revising and organizing
  • Incorporating sources
  • Communicating evidence visually
  • Introductions and conclusions
  • Revising style : telling your story clearly
  • Research presentations
  • V. Some last considerations. The ethics of research
  • Advice for teachers.