Research Methods for the College Freshman
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 258
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 258
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Research Methods for the College Freshman introduces instruction on several of the fundamental necessities for specific research papers, offering not only the basic understanding of how to write a research paper, but introducing elements that are discipline specific.
Generally speaking, most college freshmen begin their writing experience with little sense of how a research paper is written. Freshmen students coming into the research portion of composition often do not recognize certain elements necessary to create successful research paper. And, with the diversity in student's majors of any given freshmen composition class, there has been a necessity to introduce a generalized format and formula. However, regularly students need the related type of research education for their specific major, with specifications on a type of paper in which they will need to write in their future endeavors based upon their own discipline.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Pre-Writing Assignment 1
Section 1.1 What Is Research Writing?
Section 1.2 Research an Arguable Topic 2
Section 1.3 Define Argument in an Argumentative Paper 3
Exercise E.1.1 7
Chapter 2 Research Methods 9
Section 2.1 How to Use the Library Resource Search 9
Exercise E.2.1
Section 2.2 Field Research
Section 2.3 Use of the Internet for Research Methods
Exercise E.2.3
Section 2.4 What Is Scholarly Literature?
Exercise E.2.4
Section 2.5 Primary and Secondary Sources
Exercise E.2.5
Section 2.6 Literature Review
Exercise E.2.6
Paper Assignment 2.0
Chapter 3 Formatting, References, Works Cited, and Annotated Bibliography
Section 3.1 General Guidelines for Writing Essays
Section 3.2 APA
Exercise E.3.1.a
Paper Assignment 3.0
Section 3.3 MLA
Exercise E.3.1.b
Paper Assignment 3.1
Section 3.4 Chicago, Footnotes, Oxford, Harvard, ASA, and AMA 105
Chapter 4 Writing a Summary
Section 4.1 Summary
Exercise E.4.1
Exercise E.4.2
Paper Assignment 4.0
Chapter 5 The Annotated Bibliography and Prospectus
Section 5.1 Annotated Bibliography Defined
Section 5.2 Annotated Bibliography vs. Abstract
Section 5.3 Structure of an Annotation
Section 5.4 Types of Annotated Bibliographies
Section 5.5 Creating the Annotated Bibliography
Paper Assignment 5.0a Annotated Bibliography in MLA
Paper Assignment 5.0b Annotated Bibliography in APA
Section 5.6 The Prospectus
Section 5.7 Organization
Section 5.8 Audience
Paper Assignment 5.1
Chapter 6 Building Your Paper
Section 6.1 Outline & Thesis Statement
Exercise E.6.1
Section 6.2 Creating the Outline
Paper Assignment 6.1
Section 6.3 The Dreaded Introductory Paragraph
Exercise E.6.2
Paper Assignment 6.2
Section 6.4 The Body, Support, and Proof
Exercise E.6.3
Paper Assignment 6.3
Section 6.5 Rebuttal & Refute
Paper Assignment 6.4
Section 6.6 Conclusion
Section 6.7 Putting It All Together
Paper Assignment 6.5 Final Draft