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| Preparing for Research | |
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| Why Research? Recognizing Research Contexts | |
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| Reflect: How Have You Conducted Research Before? Identifying Research Purposes | |
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| Reflect: How Do Research Processes Compare? Considering Elements of the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Reflect: How Do Rhetorical Situations Compare? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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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| Staring Your Research Proposal | |
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| Examples of Research Proposals | |
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| Example 1: Tsz Lee "Can I Have a Clone?" | |
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| Example 2: 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? 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 | |
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| 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? 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 Rhe | |