Primary Research and Writing
People, places, and spaces.
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Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities.
Authors Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble have built a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to emerging writers. Students are able to explore ways of analyzing their findings and presenting their results to their intended readers.
With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include special elements such as:
- Communities in Context – Profiles of traditional and digital communities that help students understand the characteristics of communities and group members
- Profiles of Primary Researchers – Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays in real-world research and writing
- Student Writing – Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations.
- Invention Exercises - Exercises designed to help students locate primary investigation within communities that they already understand or find appealing
- Writing Exercises - Writing exercises that offer students practice in exploring communities and investigating primary materials.
- Readings – Annotated readings with questions to guide analysis, pulled from a variety of rich sources, that give students inspiration for undertaking their own research projects.
This text has a robust companion website that provides resources for instructors and students, with sample syllabi, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, sample assignments, and a list of class resources.
Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers, and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.
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Table of contents
- Half-Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I PRIMARY RESEARCH AND RHETORICAL TOOLS
- PART II METHODS FOR INQUIRY AND CONDUCTING ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
- PART III WRITING AND DELIVERING YOUR RESEARCH
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when conducting primary research, and then covers the stages that you will go through in your primary research: planning, collecting, analyzing, and writing. After the four stages comes an introduction to three common ways of conducting primary research in first year writing classes: • Observations. Observing and measuring the world around
Profiles of Primary Researchers – Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays in real-world research and writing ; Student Writing – Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations.
Developed for young academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities.
Aug 20, 2015 · Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities.
Ethics of primary research You should have permission. Let your subjects know whether your research results will be anonymous or not. (Surveys = yes, Interviews = no) It you are interested in analyzing something that is available publicly (e.g. commercials) you do not need permission.
Primary research, the focus of this essay, is research that is collected firsthand rather than found in a book, database, or journal. Primary research is often based on principles of the scientific method , a theory of investigation first developed by John Stuart Mill in the nineteenth century in his book Philosophy of the Scientific Method.
courses earmarked expository writing and advanced composition, but this ap-proach works well in beginning composition courses, too. I recently co-authored (with Michelle Eble) a first-year writing text grounded in primary investigation, Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces (Routledge 2016), a
Dec 28, 2020 · reporter of research, primary research allows you to be creators of research. Primary research provides opportunities to collect information based on your specific research questions and generate new knowledge from those questions to share with others. Generally, primary research tends to follow these steps: 1. Develop a research question.
when conducting primary research, and then covers the stages that you will go through in your primary research: planning, collecting, analyzing, and writing. After the four stages comes an introduction to three common ways of conducting primary research in first year writing classes: ./ . • x· Observations.
The basic qualitative research design was adopted for this study. "In basic qualitative studies, the overall purpose is to understand how people make sense of their lives and experiences." [16]. Teacher opinions were taken in writing in order to identify the difficulties which they experienced in the process of primary reading and writing