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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Chapter 1. What are Research Methods?
    1. Uncertainty and Curiosity
    2. Rhetorical Foundations of Research
    3. Research Example: Student Writing Habits
    4. Research Example: Access to Clean Water
    5. Research Across the Disciplines
    6. Using Research Methods Ethically
    7. Developing a Research Proposal
    8. Focus on Delivery: Writing a Research Proposal
    9. Works Cited
  3. Chapter 2. Making Research Ethical
    1. Ethical Approaches to Research
    2. Ethos is Collective and Individual
    3. Ethics and Secondary Research
    4. Establishing Ethos
    5. Evaluating Texts and Authors
    6. Learning Citation Systems
    7. Ethics and Primary Research
    8. Focus on Delivery: Composing a Participation Form
    9. Works Cited
  4. Chapter 3. Working with Sources: Worknets and Invention
    1. The Power of Worknets
    2. Branching Out—Taking Worknets Farther
    3. Using Worknets to Develop a Literature Review
    4. Focus on Delivery: Writing a Literature Review
    5. Works Cited
  5. Chapter 4. Working With Words
    1. Discourse Analysis
    2. Content Analysis
    3. Rhetorical Analysis
    4. Genre Analysis
    5. Focus on Delivery: Developing a Coding Scheme
    6. Works Cited
  6. Chapter 5. Working with People
    1. Surveys
    2. Interviews
    3. Putting It All Together: Case Studies
    4. Focus on Delivery: Writing a Research Memo
    5. Works Cited
  7. Chapter 6. Working with Places and Things
    1. Methods Can Be Material
    2. Archival Methods
    3. Site-Based Observations
    4. Places and Things Converge: Mapmaking as a Method
    5. Focus on Delivery: Curating a Collection
    6. Works Cited
  8. Chapter 7. Working with Visuals
    1. Photographs
    2. Working with More Visuals
    3. Looking Again at Working with Visuals
    4. Focus on Delivery: The Photo Essay
    5. Works Cited
  9. Chapter 8. Research and the Rhetorical Forms It Takes
    1. The Rhetorical Forms Research Takes
    2. Focus on Delivery: Developing a Research Poster
    3. Works Cited
  10. Acknowledgments

Publication Information

The WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523

University Press of Colorado, Louisville, Colorado 80027

© 2022 by Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Derek Mueller, and Kate Pantelides. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

ISBN 978-1-64215-144-2 (PDF) | 978-1-64215-145-9 (ePub) | 978-1-64642-312-5 (pbk.)

DOI 10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1442

Produced in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Clary-Lemon, Jennifer, author. | Mueller, Derek N., 1974- author. | Pantelides, Kate, 1981- author.

Title: Try this : research methods for writers / Jennifer Clary-Lemon, University of Waterloo ; Derek Mueller, Virginia Tech ; Kate Pantelides, Middle Tennessee State University.

Description: Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse ; Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2022] | Series: Practices & possibilities | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021060203 (print) | LCCN 2021060204 (ebook) | ISBN 9781646423125 (paperback) | ISBN 9781642151442 (pdf) | ISBN 9781642151459 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: English language--Rhetoric--Research--Methodology. | English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc. | Academic writing.

Classification: LCC PE1408 .C5227 2022 (print) | LCC PE1408 (ebook) | DDC 808/.042--dc23/eng/20220113

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060203

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021060204

Copyeditor: Karen Peirce

Designer: Mike Palmquist

Cover Art: Derek Mueller

Series Editors: Aimee McClure, Mike Palmquist, and Aleashia Walton

Series Associate Editors: Lauryn Bolz and Jagadish Paudel

The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University, it brings together scholarly journals and book series as well as resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book is available in digital formats for free download at wac.colostate.edu.

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