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Real World Research Sources and Strategies for Composition

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ISBN-10: 039590126X

ISBN-13: 9780395901267

Edition: 2000

Authors: Rai Peterson

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This comprehensive guide emphasizes the cultural value of research and displays a real-world emphasis by showing the important role that research plays in different industries and careers. While the text thoroughly covers traditional research methods, it pays special attention to using interviews, ethnographies, government agencies, the telephone, and the Internet as research tools. Five sample student papers illustrate different approaches to topic selection, research sources, and organization, and provide students with examples of five documentation formatsMLA, APA, CMS, and two versions of CBE.
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Book details

List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 7/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100

Sources
Practicing Real-World Research What Is Research?
Kinds of Research Research as a Natural Activity
Researcher Profile: Matt Roberts, Talent
Researcher for The Late Show with David Letterman
Exploring Libraries School Libraries
Public Libraries College, University, or Research Libraries
The Library of Congress Researcher Profile: Elizabeth McIntosh, Former
Project Director for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Using the Internet as a Research Tool E-mail Mailing
Lists and Newsgroups
The World Wide Web Researcher Profile: Suzanna Aaron, Segment
Producer for The NBC News with Tom Brokaw
Gathering Information from Government Offices, Museums and Other
Archives, and Corporations and Associations Government
Publications Museums Archives Publicly Held Corporations
Professional Societies and Trade
Associations Researcher Profile: Keith Melder, Curator of Presidential
Memorabilia, Smithsonian Institution
Conducting Interviews Finding People to Interview
Requesting Interviews Preparing Yourself Compiling Questions
Conducting the Interview Ending the Interview Writing Up Notes
Choosing the Best Rhetorical Strategy for Your Paper Researcher
Profile: Myles Ogea, Entrepreneur Co-Owner of the MT Cup Coffeehouse
Strategies
Selecting and Narrowing a Research Topic Terminology and Process
Meet Kyle Parker Choosing a Topic Kyle's
Subject Selection Process
Determining What You Already Know
Exploring Your Memory to Develop
Your Thesis Freewriting Inventing and Shaping
Your Arguments
Researching the Topic Getting Started Finding
Descriptors Defining Search Parameters
Determining Whether a Topic Is Too Broad or Narrow
Compiling a Working Bibliography
Generating a List of Print Sources
Keeping a Research Process
Journal Kyle's Working Bibliography
Collecting Information Organizing
Your Search Process Evaluating Sources
Taking Notes Understanding and Avoiding
Plagiarism Note Cards Kyle's Notes
Planning an Argument Understanding
Your Audience Rhetorical Strategies
You Can Use to Make
Your Argument Deduction and Induction
Writing a Working Outline Kyle's Working Outline
Incorporating Secondary Materials
Introducing the Work of Other Writers
Exploring Contexts Summarizing Paraphrasing
Quoting Directly Incorporating Multimedia
Materials into Your Project Avoiding Plagiarism
Drafting and Revising the Final Project
Writing Rituals Kyle's Introduction
Drafting the Main Text Don't Fight the Process
Drafting a Conclusion Revising
Your Draft Kyle's Rough Draft
APA Format an Scientific and Technical
Documentation Styles Printing Your Papers
Correcting Errors APA Parenthetical
Citation Footnotes and Endnotes
Reference List Kyle's Final Draft
MLA Format and Arts and Humanities
Documentation Styles Printing Your Paper
Correcting Errors MLA Parenthetical Citation
Footnotes and Endnotes Works
Cited List Kyle's Final Draft
Creating Alternative Media Presentations
Public Presentations Poster Sessions
World Wide Web Sites Video Kyle's Web Page
Student Researchers Brian Seelig, Interstellar
Travel: Searching for a Breakthrough
Carole Kirsch, Organ Donation: To Sign or Not to Sign
Cathy Bennett, Women and HIV/AIDS: Should Testing Be Mandatory?
Sean Slagle, Victorian Culture vs. Wonderland Culture: A Study in the Lack of Understanding
Tim Peters, School Vouchers
Researching an Internship Considering an Internship
Discovering Internship Opportunities