Full Description
Developed for emerging academic writers, this new edition offers a thoroughly updated approach for incorporating archival and primary materials into the writing process.
Encouraging students to write about topics that resonate with their community memberships, personal interests, and positionality, this textbook emphasizes the importance of expanding writing and research skills and abilities to include material culture. The book includes a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to emerging writers. Students assess multiple ways of analyzing their findings and presenting results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include elements such as profiles of primary researchers, communities in context, and student writing examples. This new edition explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence, as well as multimodality, document design, visual elements and citation practices.
Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for undergraduate students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.
Online resources, including sample syllabi and course designs, sample class projects/assignment descriptions, activities, and discussion questions are available at www.routledge.com/9781041025825.
Contents
PART I PRIMARY RESEARCH AND RHETORICAL TOOLS 1. Introduction to Primary Research 2. Defining and Engaging with Communities 3. Identifying a Research Topic and Thinking Like a Researcher 4. Becoming an Authority on a Topic PART II METHODS FOR INQUIRY AND CONDUCTING ARCHIVAL RESEARCH 5. Beginning Archival Research: A Practical Guide 6. Fieldwork and Ethnographic Observation 7. Interviews: Researching People 8. Surveys: Researching Beliefs, Opinions, and Attitudes PART III WRITING AND DELIVERING YOUR RESEARCH 9. A Rhetorical Approach to Research and Writing 10. Preparing your Research for Delivery
