The Craft of Research Preface Chapters 1 7

The Craft of Research Preface , Chapters 1 & 7 Compositions Presentation January 20 th , 2011 Beau Baldwin Meng Lee Zhou Pengcheng Brady Burby

The Preface What Are We Getting Into

What This Book is About �How to organize your thoughts onto paper �Establishing a correct audience and type of paper for that audience �Research is not a line but rather a cycle

The Circle of Research � You can do all the research in the world but it all comes down to what is useful and relevant. �A thesis may come after research has begun. � There is no correct order in how writing is started. � Each part of the process affects all the others

The Complexities � Being Creative • Finding a niche � Think about the reader • What is running threw the readers mind • How can you help the reader � Answer questions • The intro and conclusion need to introduce a good question and answer it

Side With The Readers �Meet a readers expectations �Plan, conduct, and evaluate your paper as to create a better paper �Structure, style, and methods of proof are not empty formulas

Research is Not Just For The Pros �Students and professionals alike can make great papers �The context of a professional community �How helpful a community can be

What’s Not In The Book �Formalities • • of the research paper Addressing Descriptions Audio and other external forms of evidence Internet

The Second Rendition �Cut repetition �Fixed sentences to be more clear �Added • How computers have changed research • Difference between reasons and evidence • How to rebuttal (response)

Acknowledgements �Many people are to thank for the second rendition of this book • Too many to list

Chapter 1 Thinking in Print The Uses of Research, Public and Private

Research �What is research? �Example of research - question/problem - answer �Reliable Fact?

Why is the Earth Round? by Fraser Cain on March 10, 2009 Earth as seen from the ISS. Credit: NASA Don’t listen to the Flat Earth Society, they’re wrong; the Earth is round. But did you ever wonder why the Earth is Round? It all comes down to gravity. One of the effects of mass is that it attracts other mass. For small objects, like your computer, your car, and even a building, the force of gravity is tiny. But when you have millions, and even trillions of tonnes of mass, the effect of the gravity really builds up. All of the mass pulls on all the other mass, and it tries to create the most efficient shape… a sphere. http: //www. universetoday. com/26782/why-is-the-earth-round/

Reasons to write �Memory �Understand �Gain Perspective

Why A Formal Report? �Change �Learn �Be the way the writer thinks more about your ideas familiar and understand

Conclusion To Chapter 1 �Research answers questions - Helpful facts �Research helps to better understand remember �Formal research can be helpful

Chapter 7 Making Good Arguments An Overview

Argument and Conversation �In a research paper the writer makes a claim �Reasons based on evidence �Acknowledge other views �Explains and respond to the writers principles of reasoning.

5 Questions you must ask yourself � What’s � What your claim? reasons support your claims? � What Evidence supports your reasons? � Do you acknowledge their point of view? � What principle connects your reasons to your claim?

Basing Claims On Reasons � Claim is made based on reason • Example: Smoking is a difficult habit to quit because tobacco contains nicotine. � Main Claim (thesis statement) � Reason • a sentence supporting a claim, main or not. • evidence

Claim vs. Main Claim � Claim • Any sentence that states that something may be true or false and so needs support: � Main Claim • A sentence that your whole report supports. (also known as thesis)

Problems in Researching � Responding and Anticipating readers questions, alternatives, and objections � Over simplifying arguments

ETHOS � An image of yourself that you project through your argument � ETHOS becomes your reputation.

Quote � “The more you learn the more you recognize things are not as blindingly complex as you first thought, but neither are they as simple as you hoped they would be. ”

Works Cited � Booth, Wayne C. , Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft Of Research. Second ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 126 -xi. Online. � https: //huskymail. mtu. edu/service/home/~/dilbert. jpg? auth=co&loc=en_US&id=24322&part=2 � http: //www. universetoday. com/26782/why-is-the-earth-round/