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By (author) Booth Wayne C.; By (author) Colomb Gregory G.; By (author) Williams Joseph M.; By (author) Bizup, Joseph; By (author) FitzGerald, William T.
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A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.
With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and government. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to choose significant topics, pose genuine and productive questions, find and evaluate sources, build sound and compelling arguments, and convey those arguments effectively to others.
While preserving the book’s proven approach to the research process, as well as its general structure and accessible voice, this new edition acknowledges the many ways research is conducted and communicated today. Thoroughly revised by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, it recognizes that research may lead to a product other than a paper—or no product at all—and includes a new chapter about effective presentations. It features fresh examples from a variety of fields that will appeal to today’s students and other readers. It also accounts for new technologies used in research and offers basic guidelines for the appropriate use of generative AI. And it ends with an expanded chapter on ethics that addresses researchers’ broader obligations to their research communities and audiences as well as systemic questions about ethical research practices.
This new edition will be welcomed by a new and more diverse generation of researchers.
Table of contents:
Preface: The Aims of This Edition
Introduction: Your Research and Your Audience
I.1. What Is Research?
I.2. Connecting with Your Audience
I.3. Understanding Your Role
I.4. Imagining the Role of Your Audience
I.5. How to Use This Book
Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Audience
Part I. Asking Questions, Seeking Answers
Prologue: Planning Your Project—An Overview
Quick Tip: Sustaining a Writing Project Alone and in Groups
1. From Topics to Questions
1.1. From an Interest to a Topic
1.2. From Focused Topic to Research Question
1.3. The Most Significant Question: So What?
Quick Tip: Finding Topics
2. From Questions to a Problem
2.1. Understanding Research Problems
2.2. Distinguishing “Pure” and “Applied” Research
2.3. Connecting Research to Practical Consequences
2.4. Finding a Good Research Problem
2.5. Learning to Work with Problems
Quick Tip: Making an Opportunity of Inexperience
Part II. Sources and Resources
Prologue: Sources and Authentic Research
3. Finding and Evaluating Sources
3.1. Understanding Three Types of Sources
3.2. Making the Most of the Library
3.3. Locating Sources Online
3.4. Evaluating Sources for Relevance and Reliability
3.5. Looking Beyond Predictable Sources
3.6. Using People to Further Your Research
Quick Tip: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence
4. Engaging Sources
4.1. Recording Complete Bibliographic Information
4.2. Engaging Sources Actively
4.3. Reading for a Problem
4.4. Reading for Arguments
4.5. Reading for Data and Support
4.6. Taking Notes Systematically
4.7. Annotating Your Sources
Quick Tip: Managing Moments of Uncertainty
Part III. Making Your Argument
Prologue: Assembling a Research Argument
5. Making Good Arguments: An Overview
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