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The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Wayne C. Booth
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Description for The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Paperback. Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 30. Weight in Grams: 440.
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique. The fourth edition has been thoroughly but respectfully ... Read more
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique. The fourth edition has been thoroughly but respectfully ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226239736
SKU
V9780226239736
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About Wayne C. Booth
Joseph Bizup is associate professor in the Department of English at Boston University. He is the coeditor of the thirteenth edition of the Norton Reader and editor of the eleventh edition of Joseph M. Williams's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. William T. FitzGerald is assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. Wayne C. Booth (1921 2005) ... Read more
Reviews for The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
A well-constructed, articulate reminder of how important fundamental questions of style and approach, such as clarity and precision, are to all research.
Praise for previous edition Times Literary Supplement I recommend it to my students . . . and keep a copy close at hand as the first option offered to students who ask, 'Just how ... Read more
Praise for previous edition Times Literary Supplement I recommend it to my students . . . and keep a copy close at hand as the first option offered to students who ask, 'Just how ... Read more