The Craft of Research
The Craft of Research is a book by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The book aims to provide a basic overview of how to research, from the process of selecting a topic and gathering sources to the process of writing results. The book has gone through four editions, and become a standard text in college composition classes. The book is a winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award.
Content
PREFACE
Research, researchers, and readers
- Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private
- Connecting with Your Reader: (Re)Creating Your Self and Your Audience
Asking questions, finding answers
- From Topics to Questions
- From Questions to Problems
- From Problems to Sources
- Using Sources
Making a claim and supporting it
- Making Good Arguments: An Overview
- Claims
- Reasons and Evidence
- Acknowledgments and Responses
- Warrants
Preparing a draft, drafting, and revising
- Planning and Drafting
- Revising Your Organization and Argument
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Communicating Evidence Visually
- Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly
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
Editions in print
- Cloth 3rd Edition (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-06565-6
- Paper 3rd Edition (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-06566-3
- Paper 4th edition (2016) ISBN 978-0226239569
Translations
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean , Portuguese , Russian , Spanish , and Swedish .
External links
- The Craft of Research, 3rd Edition at the University of Chicago Press
- Interview with the authors
- Yale Library Research Guide
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