• Extensive coverage of how to do research on the Internet, including how to evaluate and test the reliability of sources
• New information on the visual representation of data
• Expanded bibliography, now including electronic sources

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0226065685
ISBN-13: 9780226065687
Format: Paperback, 344pp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Edition Number: 2
Pub date: 2003

Content
Preface

Part I. Research, Researchers, and Readers Prologue
Chapter 1. Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private
1.1 What is Research?
1.2 Why Write It Up?
1.3 Why a Formal Report?
1.4 Conclusion

Chapter 2. Connecting with Your Reader: (Re)Creating Your Self and Your Audience
2.1 Creating Roles for Writers and Readers
2.2 Creating a Reationship with Your Reader: Your Role
2.3 Creating the Other Half of the Relationships: The Reader's Role
2.4 Writing in Groups
2.5 Managing the Unavoidable Problem of Inexperience
Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Readers
Part II. Asking Questions, Finding Answers Prologue: Planning Your Project

Chapter 3. From Topics to Questions
3.1 From an Interest to a Topic
3.2 From a Bond Topic to a Focused One
3.3 From a Focused Topic to Questions
3.4 From a Merely Interesting Question to its Wider Significant
Quick Tip: Finding Topics
Chapter 4. From Questions to Problems

4.1 Problems, Problems, Problems
4.2 The Common Structure of Problems
4.3 Finding a Good Research Problem
4.4 Summary: The Problem of the Problem
Quick Tip: Disagreeing with Your Sources

Chapter 5. From Problems to Sources
5.1 Screening Sources for Reliability
5.2 Locating Printed and Recorded Sources
5.3 Finding Sources on the Internet
5.4 Gathering Data Directly from People
5.5 Bibliographic Trails
5.6 What You Find

Chapter 6. Using Sources
6.1 Three Uses for Sources
6.2 Reading Generously but Critically
6.3 Preserving What You Find
6.4 Getting Help
Quick Tip: Speedy Reading

Part III. Making A Claim and Supporting It
Prologue: Pulling Together Your Argument
Chapter 7. Making Good Arguments: An Overview
7.1 Argument and Conversation 7.2 Basing Claims on Reason
7.3 Basing Reasons on Evidence
7.4 Acknowledging and Responding to Alternatives
7.5 Warranting the Relevance of Reasons
7.6 Building Complex Arguments Out of Simple Ones
7.7 Arguments and Your Ethos
Quick Tip: Designing Arguments Not for Yourself but for Your Readers: Two Common Pitfalls

Chapter 8. Claims
8.1 What Kind of Claim?
8.2 Evaluating Your Claim Quick Tip: Qualifying Claims to Enhance Your Credibility

Chapter 9 Reasons and Evidence
9.1 Using Reasons to Plan Your Argument
9.2 The Slippery Distinction between Reasons and Evidence
9.3 Evidence vs. Reports of Evidence
9.4 popularing the Right Form for Reporting Evidence
9.5 Reliable Evidence
Quick Tip: Showing the Relevance of Evidence

Chapter 10. Acknowledgments and Responses
10.1 Questioning Your Argument
10.2 Finding Alternatives to Your Argument
10.3 Deciding What to Acknowledge
10.4 Responses as Subordinate Arguments
Quick Tip: The Vocabulary of Acknowledgments and Response

Chapter 11. Warrants
11.1 How Warrants Work
11.2 What Warrants Look Like
11.3 Knowing When to State a Warrant
11.4 Testing Your Warrants
11.5 Challenging the Warrants of Others
Quick Tip: Some Strategies for Challenging Warrants
Part IV. Preparing to Draft, Drafting, and Revising
Prologue: Planning Again Quick Tip: Outlining

Chapter 12. Planning and Draft
12.1 Preliminaries to Drafting
12.2 Planning: Four Traps to Avoid
12.3 A Plan for Drafting
12.4 The Pitfall to Avoid at All Costs: Plagiarism
12.5 The Next Step Quick Tip: Using Quotation and Paraphrase

Chapter 13. Revising Your Organization and Argument
13.1 Thinking Like a Reader
13.2 Analyzing and Revising Your Overall Organization
13.3 Revising Your Argument
13.4 The Last Step
Quick Tip: Titles and Abstracts

Chapter 14. Introduction and Conclusions
14.1 The Three Elements of an Introduction
14.2 Establishing Common Ground
14.3 Stating Your Problem
14.4 Stating Your Response
14.5 Fast or Slow?
14.6 Organizing the Whole Introduction
14.7 Conclusions Quick Tip: Opening and Closing Words

Chapter 15. Communicating Evidence Visually
15.1 Visual or Verbal?
15.2 Tables vs. Figures
15.3 Constructing Tables 15.4 Constructing Figures 15.5 Visual Communication and Ethics
15.6 Using Graphics as an Aid to Thinking

Chapter 16. Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly
16.1 Judging Style
16.2 A First Principle: Stories and Grammar
16.3 A Second Principle: Old Before New
16.4 Choosing between Active and Passive
16.5 A Final Principle: Complexity Last
16.6 Spit and Polish
Quick Tip: The Quickest Revision

Part V. Some Last Considerations
The Ethics of Research
A Postscript for Teachers
An Appendix on Finding Sources
General Sources - Special Sources
A Note on Some of Our Sources
Index

Book authors
Wayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Gregory D. Colomb is professor of English language and literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.

Joseph M. Williams is professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Together Colomb and Williams have written The Craft of Argument.

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