Thoroughly revised and updated advice on conducting academic research, written in collaboration with Anne-Marie Deitering, an expert on research and learning technologies, offers new visuals, guidelines, and questions that reframe the process, helping students:
- understand research as exploration,
- efficiently navigate new technologies,
- evaluate information, and
- participate in academic conversations.
A fully revised argument chapter features advice on mastering essential moves in academic writing -- determining whether a claim can be argued, developing a working thesis, providing good reasons and support, acknowledging counterarguments, framing arguments as part of the scholarly conversation, and using visuals. Full explanations are summarized in easy-reference “Guidelines” boxes and illustrated with student and professional examples.
Newly designed “Guidelines” boxes present key processes in flowcharts, reinforcing the importance of decision-making and active engagement in the processes of writing, thinking, and reading, and making writing advice even easier for students to grasp.
New student models from across the disciplines include essays on bilingual education, music preference as an indicator of suicide risk in adolescents, and Internet privacy.