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| Preparing For Research | |
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| Why Research? | |
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| Recognizing Research Contexts | |
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| Reflect: How Have You Conducted Research Before? | |
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| Identifying Research Purposes | |
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| Reflect: How Do Research Processes Compare? | |
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| Considering Elements of the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Reflect: How Do Rhetorical Situations Compare? | |
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| Entering a Conversation | |
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| Techno Tip: Listen to Conversations in Progress | |
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| Research and Writing Processes | |
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| Processes and Rhetorical Situations | |
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| Myths about Writing and Research Processes | |
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| Writing Processes | |
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| Foundations in Classical Rhetoric | |
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| Invention | |
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| Researching | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Reflect: How Do You Write Best? | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Techno Tip: Conduct Peer Reviews | |
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| Revising | |
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| Editing | |
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| Techno Tip: Read Your Writing Out Loud Proofreading | |
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| Reflect: What Are Your Writing Idiosyncrasies? | |
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| Publishing | |
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| Research Processes | |
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| Disciplinary Approaches | |
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| Write: Discover Disciplinary Patterns and Conventions | |
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| Identifying a Topic | |
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| Analyzing the Writing Situation | |
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| Taking Advantage of Kairos | |
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| Write: Identify Kairos | |
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| Considering the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Write: Analyze the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Generating Topics | |
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| Write: What's Important to You? | |
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| Write: Generate Topic Ideas | |
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| Write: Consider Audience and Purpose | |
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| Techno Tip: Use Technology to Explore What You Already Know | |
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| Exploring and Narrowing a Potential Topic | |
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| Techno Tip: Use the Internet to Explore a Possible Topic | |
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| Reflect: How Can I Make a Topic Manageable? | |
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| Write: Focus Your Research Topic | |
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| Developing a Research Question | |
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| Write: Write a Research Question | |
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| Situating the Writer in the Research | |
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| Reflect: What Is the Writer's Place in the Rhetorical Situation? | |
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| Your Knowledge of Your Topic | |
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| Write: Take an Inventory of What You Know | |
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| Research in Progress: Writing a Research Proposal | |
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| The Assignment | |
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| Features of a Research Proposal | |
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| Starting Your Research Proposal | |
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| Examples of Research Proposals | |
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| Tsz Lee "Can I Have a Clone?" | |
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| Megan Trevizo, "Is Breast Always Best?" | |
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| Conducting Research | |
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| Finding Resources through Secondary Research | |
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| Conducting Research | |
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| Identifying the Information You Need to Find | |
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| Primary and Secondary Research | |
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| Conducting Primary or Secondary Research | |
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| Reflect: Should You Conduct Primary or Secondary Research? | |
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| Locating Resources | |
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| Specific Search Terms | |
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| Internet Search Engines | |
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| Expanding and Focusing Search Terms | |
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| Write: List Alternative Key Terms | |
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| Write: Develop a List of Search Terms | |
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| Search Engines and Web Directories | |
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| Techno Tip: Refine Your Search Results | |
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| Types of Resources | |
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| How Texts Change over Time | |
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| How Texts Are Reviewed | |
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| Library Resources vs. Internet Resources | |
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| Techno Tip: Edit and Review the History of a Wikipedia Page | |
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| Static Resources | |
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| Books | |
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| Write: Search the Library Catalog | |
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| Websites | |
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| Audio and Video Files | |
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| Microfilm and Microfiche | |
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| Syndicated Resources | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Write: Search for Resources in Periodicals | |
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| Podcasts | |
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| Blogs and RSS Feeds | |
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| Techno Tip: Set up RSS Feeds | |
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| Dynamic Resources | |
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| Email Lists and Newsgroups | |
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| Social Networking Sites | |
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| Online Communities | |
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| Wikis | |
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| Write: Search for a Variety of Resources | |
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| Developing a Research Plan | |
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| Reflect: What's Your Plan? | |
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| Conducting Primary Research | |
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| Observations | |
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| Including Observation in Your Research Plan | |
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| Conducting an Observation | |
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| Write: Practice Observing Your Subject | |
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| Techno Tip: Record Your Observation | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Including Interviews in Your Research Plan | |
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| Conducting an Interview | |
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| Write: Draft Interview Questions | |
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| Techno Tip: Conduct Interviews Online | |
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| Surveys | |
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| Including a Survey in Your Research Plan | |
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| Conducting a Survey | |
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| Write: Draft Survey Questions | |
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| Reflect: Is the Survey Valid and Reliable? | |
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| Distributing Surveys and Collecting Responses | |
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| Techno Tip: Consider Online Survey Services | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Techno Tip: Gather Data Online | |
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| Interpretation of Data | |
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| Analyzing Quantitative Data | |
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| Analyzing Qualitative Data | |
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| Presenting the Results of Primary Research | |
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| Write: Decide What Type of Primary Data to Collect | |
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| Reflect: What Does Your Research Plan Look Like Now? | |
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| Reading Resources Rhetorically | |
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| Rhetorical Reading | |
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| Reflect: Are You Reading Purposefully or Rhetorically? | |
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| Write: Choose Resources to Read | |
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| Considering Context | |
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| Write: Situate a Resource Rhetorically | |
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| Annotating Resources | |
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| Write: Annotate a Resource | |
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| Techno Tip: Search Electronic Documents | |
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| Summarizing | |
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| Reflect: How Do You Write a Summary? | |
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| Write: Summarize One of Your Resources | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Write: Paraphrase One of Your Resources | |
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| Selecting Potential Quotations | |
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| Write: Take Detailed Notes on a Resource | |
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| Starting to Evaluate Your Resources | |
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| Tracking and Evaluating Data | |
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| Verify | |
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| Copy | |
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| Techno Tip: Register with a Social Bookmarking Application | |
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| Write: Track Bibliographic Information | |
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| Techno Tip: Track Bibliographic Information Online | |
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| Evaluating Credibility | |
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| Respond | |
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| Evaluating Validity | |
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| Write: Evaluate Validity | |
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| Fill the Gaps | |
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| Write: Trace a Line of Research | |
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| Write: Make Cover Sheets | |
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| Understanding Plagiarism and Integrating Resources | |
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| Copyright | |
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| Fair Use | |
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| Ideas Versus Words | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Blatant Plagiarism | |
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| Careless Plagiarism | |
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| Integration of Resources into Your Argument | |
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| Introduction of the Source | |
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| Write: Introduce Secondary Resources | |
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| Incorporation of the Data | |
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| Quotations from Resources | |
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| Summarizing and Paraphrasing Revisited | |
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| Interpreting the Resource | |
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| Documenting the Resource | |
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| What to Cite | |
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| How to Cite | |
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| Write: Decide Which Citation Style to Use | |
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| In-Text Citations | |
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| Write: Practice In-Text Citations | |
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| Full Bibliographic Citations | |
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| Techno Tip: Use the Online Resource Center to Check Your Citations Research in Progress | |
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| Writing a Review of Research | |
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| The Assignment | |
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| Features of Reviews of Research | |
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| Starting Your Review of Research | |
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| Examples of Reviews of Research | |
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| Tsz Lee, Should All Forms of Human Cloning Be Banned? | |
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| John Lewis, Will Distance Learning Replace Traditional Instruction? | |
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| Reporting On Research | |
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| Constructing an Argument | |
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| Reporting vs. Arguing | |
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| Reflect: Is It Reporting or Arguing? | |
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| Write: Define the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Responding to the Research Question | |
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| Write: Create a Cluster Map | |
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| Developing a Thesis | |
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| Write: Draft a Thesis Statement | |
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| Using Qualifiers | |
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| Reflect: Can You Recognize Qualifiers? | |
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| Supporting an Argument | |
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| Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | |
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| Ethos | |
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| Write: Develop Your Authorial Ethos | |
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| Pathos | |
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| Write: Develop Emotional Arguments | |
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| Logos | |
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| Offering Evidence | |
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| Determining Warrants | |
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| Write: Understand Your Warrants | |
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| Providing Counterarguments | |
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| Including Rebuttals | |
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| Write: Develop Rebuttals | |
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| Write: Construct an Argument | |
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| Selecting and Incorporating Evidence | |
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| Developing Project-Specific Evaluation Criteria | |
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| Audience and Purpose | |
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| Reflect: Are You Addressing Your Audience's Wants and Needs? | |
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| Timeliness, Relevance, and Other Criteria | |
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| Write: Develop Evaluative Criteria | |
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| Resources as Evidence | |
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| Write: Evaluate Types of Resources | |
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| Matching Reasons with Evidence | |
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| Write: Draw a Cluster Map | |
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| Techno Tip: Create Clusters on the Computer | |
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| Write: Find Additional Resources | |
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| Sharing the Results | |
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| Arrangement of Your Argument | |
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| Common Argument Patterns | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Comparison and ContraSt. Definition | |
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| Proposal | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Common Presentational Patterns | |
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| Least Important to Most Important | |
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| Most Important to Least Important | |
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| Chronological Organization | |
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| Write: Develop an Outline | |
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| Introductions and Conclusions | |
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| Reflect: Are You Grabbing Your Audience's Attention and Motivating Them to Action? | |
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| Write: Draft an Effective Introduction | |
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| Write: Develop Closure | |
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| Write: Identify Possible Frames | |
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| Putting Everything Together | |
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| Write: Draft Your Final Argument | |
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| Techno Tip: Use Document-Sharing Technologies | |
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| Methods of Delivery | |
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| Academic Essays | |
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| Alternative Modes of Delivery | |
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| Techno Tip: Develop Your Presentation | |
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| Write: Decide Which Presentation Mode Is Appropriate | |
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| Research in Progress: Writing a Researched Argument | |
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| The Assignment | |
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| Features of a Researched Argument | |
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| Your Researched Argument | |
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| Examples of Researched Arguments | |
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| Tsz Lee, Therapeutic Cloning: A Significant Promise for Future Success in the United States | |
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| Kelesia Bomar, Lowering the Voting Age in Arizona | |
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| Formatting Your Research | |