THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH (Chapter one) Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private by

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THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH(Chapter one)Thinking in
PrintThe Uses of Research, Public and
Privateby

• WAYNE C. BOOYH
• GREGORY G. COLOMB
• JOSEPH M. WILLIAMS

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Research - where?
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Research (what Why?)

• Is simply gathering the information we need to
  answer a question and thereby we solve a problem
• We do it to freeze ourselves from loneliness (on
  what we see and hear)
• We do it in order to develop and change the
  world
• we do it in order to contribute to the human
  knowledge

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Research

• Everyone everyday does it
• Very few of us do write what we find, and we keep
  rely on the research of others who did write up
  their findings.

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Why write it up?

• Write to Remember
• Write to Understand
• Write to Gain Perspective

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Write to remember

• Some special people can gather information
  without recording it
• Most of us do forget when new facts come up
• Most of us need additional notes to carry on
  conversations, otherwise we are likely to forget
  or misremember
• researchers write from the beginning to the end
  of their project for better understanding and
  retention of their findings.

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Write to understand

• It creates more clearly the relationship among
  our ideas
• It enables us to arrange and rearrange the
  results of our research in new ways, we see new
  connections and contrasts, complications and
  implications we might otherwise have missed
• It help us in understanding what we are learning
  by creating a larger patterns of meaning and
  significance.

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Write to gain Perspective

• Our thoughts become more clearer light on papers
  than in minds
• We improve our thinking when we encourage it with
  notes, outlines, summaries, commentary, and other
  forms of thinking on paper
• we can reflect on our thoughts clearly only if we
  separate them from the swift of our thinking and
  fix them in coherent written form

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Write to gain Perspective

• We write so that we can think better
• We write so that we can remember more
• We write so that we can see more clearly.
• And as we shall see, the better we write, the
  more critically we can read.

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Why Turn it into a Formal Paper?

• Why should we adopt language and forms that are
  not ours?
• Whats wrong with our language, our concerns?
• Why cant we report our research in our own way?
• Why should we turn our work into a formal essay
  or research report?

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Why Turn it into a Formal Paper?

• Learning to do research will change the way we
  think (our lives) by giving us more ways of
  thinking
• we will be different for having done research,
  because we will be freer to choose who we want to
  be.
• Writing for others is more demanding than writing
  for ourselves,

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Why Turn it into a Formal Paper?

• The research paper is a way of interaction
  between the writer and the reader
• The research paper must meet the readers
  expectations and satisfy the standards forms
• writing a research paper is just thinking in
  print (it gives our ideas the the attention they
  deserve).

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All we need is

• To make plans
• and
• Create value of research

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Thank

• You!