Argument Prospectus

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Steps in the Research Process

  • Considering the rhetorical situation
    • What is the purpose of the essay?
      • Informative?
      • Persuasive?
    • Who are my audience?
      • What is their background knowledge?
      • What are their needs?
  • Formulating the research question (with purpose and audience in mind)
  • Using resources
    • Library
      • Physical library/Virtual library
      • Catalogs
        • Scholar
        • Ohiolink
      • Databases
    • Librarians
    • Interviews of experts
    • Surveys/questionnaires
    • Instructor
    • Internet (but very warily)
  • Gathering source materials
    • Books
    • Articles
    • Audio/visual materials
    • Survey/Questionnaire responses
  • Evaluating source materials
  • Mining source materials for their information (again, with audience and purpose in mind)
  • Integrating source material into the essay
    • Signal phrases
    • Metadiscourse
  • Citing sources
    • In-text citations
    • Works Cited entries
  • 10 years ago
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