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• How We Learn Reading for Academic Purposes Note-taking and Recording for Learning Finding the Information that you Need Computers and the Internet as a Source of Quality Information Preparing for Assessment and the process of writing Giving Presentations.
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Studying and Learning at University provides a concise and accessible introduction to the essential study skills for first-time undergraduates. Alan Pritchard focuses on the skills that every student will need to master to achieve succeess in their academic career. Practical, straight-forward advice is provided on subjects such as how to: " approach learning " use active reading techniques " use computers and the internet to support academic study " prepare for written assessment " prepare and deliver presentations This guide is essential reading for anyone new to study at undergraduate level. Students setting out on any undergraduate course will welcome the support and guideance provided here.
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• List of Tables List of Figures List of Appendices Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Part I. Taking Charge of Yourself and Your Work Part II. Content and Process: A Chapter-By-Chapter Roadmap
• 1. Introduction To Your Study
• 2. Developing and Presenting the Literature Review
• 3. Presenting Methodology and Research Approach
• 4. Analyzing Data and Reporting Findings
• 5. Analyzing and Interpreting Findings
• 6. Drawing Sound Conclusions and Presenting Actionable Recommendations Part III. Nearing Completion: Some Final Considerations Afterword References Appendices Author Index Subject Index.
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Completing your Qualitative Dissertation fills an important gap in the qualitative research literature by specifically addressing the fast-growing practice of qualitative postgraduate dissertations in colleges and universities throughout the world. Many students struggle to complete qualitative research projects because the research itself is inherently messy. To address this challenge the authors have distilled decades of experience into a first-of-its-kind, highly practical reference for graduate students. At the heart of the book is a series of chapters that models the typical progression of a dissertation. Each chapter is illustrated by examples that give the reader an understanding of what the actual write-up would look like. Emphasis throughout the book is on conceptual understanding as it relates to the practical aspects involved in navigating the dissertation process.
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Completing your Qualitative Dissertation fillsaan important gap in theaqualitative research literature by specifically addressing the fast-growing practice of qualitative masterA s studies and doctoral dissertations in colleges and universities throughout the world. Many students struggle with turning qualitative research projects into a masterA s thesis or doctoral dissertation because the research itself is inherently messy. To address this challenge, authorsaLinda DaleaBloomberg and Marie Volpeahave distilled decades of experience into a first-of-its-kind, highlyapracticalareference for graduate students. At the heart of the book is a series of chapters that models the typical progression of dissertation chapters: problem statementawith purpose and research questions chapter; the literature review chapter; the methodology chapter; the data collection chapter; the findings chapter; and the interpretation, analysis, and synthesis chapter. Each chapter is illustrated by an exemplar that gives the reader an understanding of what the actual write-up would look like.Emphasis throughout the book is on conceptual understanding as it relates to the practical aspects involved in navigating the dissertation process. Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation is a must-have resource for any student contemplating a qualitative research project, thesis, or dissertation, and equally valuable to researchers undertaking and writing up their qualitative research.
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• 1. Prayer at the athletic banquet
• 2. How to draft a complaint
• 3. Terminating Professor Melton
• 4. How to draft a motion
• 5. Mr Blaustein's gift
• 6. How to respond to a motion
• 7. Counseling Dean Covelli
• 8. How to draft a judicial opinion
• 9. Advising Professor Melton
• 10. How to draft a motion for summary judgment.
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Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes. Every chapter challenges the reader to write to achieve a strategic objective. Each assignment has been carefully considered by the authors, and fully vetted to simulate the decision-making involved in the preparation of important legal writing, whether in a general counsel's office, a law office, a government attorney's office, or a judge's chambers. Simply put, the authors' approach is that effective legal writing does not exist in a vacuum. This book provides practical assignments that teach the student that the best legal writing is not an end in itself, but a means to a larger strategic objective.
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• Chapter One: Get Ready to Practice The POWER Model Practicing Academic Writing Part I: Practice Becoming a Productive Academic Writer Chapter Two: Establish and Maintain the "Write" Habit Think About It . . . Seeing Yourself as a Writer EXERCISE 1-Schedule Your Writing Sessions EXERCISE 2-Increase Your Writing Time in No Time EXERCISE 3-Write Quickly, Edit Slowly EXERCISE 4-Organize Messy Drafts EXERCISE 5-Keep and Share a Writing Log EXERCISE 6-Read About Writing EXERCISE 7-Document Your Writing Projects EXERCISE 8-Write to Learn (Anything, Including How to Write) Chapter Three: Practice Building Academic Vocabulary Think About It... EXERCISE 9-Increase Your Vocabulary One Word at a Time EXERCISE 10-Use New Academic Words EXERCISE 11-Build Your Own Professional Dictionary/Glossary Chapter Four: Polish the Grammar Think About It... EXERCISE 12-Learn From the Masters EXERCISE 13-Identify Patterns of Problems EXERCISE 14-Practice Grammar Rules EXERCISE 15-Copy Chapter Five: Get Feedback Think About It... EXERCISE 16-Get Feedback on Early Drafts EXERCISE 17-Get Feedback on Middle Drafts EXERCISE 18-Get Feedback on Final Drafts EXERCISE 19-Get Feedback Regularly EXERCISE 20-Schedule Reading Appointments Chapter Six: Edit and Proofread Think About It... EXERCISE 21-Tighten the Paragraphs EXERCISE 22-Make It Flow: Organize EXERCISE 23-Clear Out the Clutter EXERCISE 24-Use a Thesaurus and a Reverse Dictionary EXERCISE 25-Pay Attention to Word Placement EXERCISE 26-Cut It in Half EXERCISE 27-Read Aloud EXERCISE 28-Copyedit: Proofread Line by Line Part II: Practice Writing Sections of Journal Articles, Research Reports, and Grant Chapter Seven: Exercises for Writing Introductions, Purpose Statements, or Specific Aims Sections Think About It... EXERCISE 29-Map EXERCISE 30-Dump EXERCISE 31-Craft the Purpose Statement EXERCISE 32-Develop the Rationale EXERCISE 33-Present the Literature Review EXERCISE 34-Lay Out the Theoretical Framework EXERCISE 35-Check It Chapter Eight: Exercises for Writing the Methods Section Think About It... EXERCISE 36-Practice Describing EXERCISE 37-Describe the Research Design EXERCISE 38-Describe the Sample EXERCISE 39-Describe the Measures EXERCISE 40-Describe Data Collection and Data Management Procedures EXERCISE 41-Describe the Data Analysis Chapter Nine: Exercises for Writing the Results/Findings Section Think About It... EXERCISE 42-Picture the Findings EXERCISE 43-Describe the Most Important Findings EXERCISE 44-Summarize the Least Important Findings Chapter Ten: Exercises for Writing the Discussion or Conclusion Section Think About It... EXERCISE 45-Question the Results/Findings EXERCISE 46-Connect the Dots: Other Research EXERCISE 47-Connect the Dots: Relevant Theory EXERCISE 48-Guide Your Reader Into the Future EXERCISE 49-Confess Limitations Chapter Eleven: Exercise for Writing Abstracts Think About It... EXERCISE 50-Write an Abstract in 20 Minutes.
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With its friendly, step-by-step format this book helps writers improve their writing by engaging in deep and deliberate practice. It is flexibly organized so readers can either work their way through all of the exercises in order or focus on the specific areas where they need additional practice building their skills.
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• 1. An Overview of Performance Assessment.
• 2. Designing the Assessment.
• 3. The Elements and Construction of a Performance Task.
• 4. Writing Prompts and Assessments.
• 5. Administration.
• 6. Developing Tools for Scoring.
• 7. Training Raters and Staff.
• 8. Scoring and Monitoring.
• 9. Forming Scores and Item-Level Analyses.
• 10. Test-Level Analyses. Glossary.
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A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to develop scoring tools, train raters, reduce rater bias, review scores and report results, and use item-level and test-level analyses to optimize reliability and validity. Clearly written and well organized, the book includes many practical examples and accessible explanations of concepts and statistical procedures. It encompasses the breadth of applications of performance assessment today, from educational testing and the credentialing of professionals to research and program evaluation. User-friendly features include: checklists of activities to complete at each stage of a performance assessment end-of-chapter questions to facilitate self-study annotated suggestions for further reading a quick-reference glossary of terms examples drawn from multiple educational and professional licensure contexts Intended for education, psychology, social work, and evaluation researchers and consultants involved in conducting performance assessment in education or professional licensure settings, this book will also appeal to graduate students who are learning to do performance assessments. It can serve as the primary text for "Performance Assessment" courses (education and psychology graduate programs), and as the supplemental text for "Educational Testing" and "Literacy Assessment" (education), "Assessment/Evaluation" (education, psychology, public health, and management) courses.
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A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to develop scoring tools, train raters, reduce rater bias, review scores and report results, and use item-level and test-level analyses to optimize reliability and validity. Clearly written and well organized, the book includes many practical examples and accessible explanations of concepts and statistical procedures. It encompasses the breadth of applications of performance assessment today, from educational testing and the credentialing of professionals to research and program evaluation. User-friendly features include: *Checklists of activities to complete at each stage of a performance assessment *End-of-chapter questions to facilitate self-study *Annotated suggestions for further reading *A quick-reference glossary of terms *Examples drawn from multiple educational and professional licensure contexts.
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• 1. Curiosity and research
• 2. Overview of experimental analysis and design
• 3. Statistics
• 4. Mathematical models
• 5. Scientific information
• Appendices
• Index.
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• 3.3.1 Definitions
• 3.3.2 Discrete probability distributions
• Single coin flip
• Sequences of measurements: Products of probabilities
• Probabilities of sequences, neglecting the order
• Binomial distribution for a fair coin
• Binomial distribution for a weighted coin
• 3.3.3 Continuous probability distributions
• Example involving time measurements
• 3.4 Connecting data and probability distributions
• 3.4.1 Sampling
• 3.4.2 True mean and true standard deviation
• Discrete distributions
• Continuous distributions
• 3.5 What happens to averages as N increases
• 3.5.1 A drunken sailor
• 3.5.2 Mean and standard deviation for averages
• Application of standard error: Improving an experiment
• 3.6 Central Limit Theorem
• 3.6.1 Uses of the normal distribution
• 3.6.2 Z test and interpreting p
• 3.6.3 Large Z, small p
• 3.6.4 Two-tailed and one-tailed tests
• 3.6.5 Confidence intervals
• 3.6.6 Type I errors
• 3.6.7 Z tests in spreadsheets
• 3.7 Comparing many experimental measurements
• 3.7.1 t test: Comparing two measurements
• 3.7.2 Two-sample t test
• Example: Rolling balls
• Example: Fish in two lakes
• 3.8 Data with many values of independent variable
• 3.8.1 χ2 test for many means with uncertainties
• Example: Bottle rocket heights versus theory
• 3.8.2 χ2 for categories
• Example: Favorite math course
• 3.8.3 Degrees of freedom
• Unbiased estimators
• 3.9 Other statistical tests
• Assignments
• References
• 4 Mathematical models
• 4.1 Ingredients of mathematical modeling
• 4.1.1 Numbers
• 4.1.2 Basic operations
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• 4.1.3 Algebra
• 4.1.4 Setting up problems: Sketching and naming
• 4.1.5 Functions
• 4.2 Estimation
• 4.2.1 Order of magnitude estimates
• 4.2.2 Dimensional analysis
• 4.3 Linear regression.

A unique introduction to the design, analysis, and presentation of scientific projects, this is an essential textbook for undergraduate majors in science and mathematics. The textbook gives an overview of the main methods used in scientific research, including hypothesis testing, the measurement of functional relationships, and observational research. It describes important features of experimental design, such as the control of errors, instrument calibration, data analysis, laboratory safety, and the treatment of human subjects. Important concepts in statistics are discussed, focusing on standard error, the meaning of p values, and use of elementary statistical tests. The textbook introduces some of the main ideas in mathematical modeling, including order-of-magnitude analysis, function fitting, Fourier transforms, recursion relations, and difference approximations to differential equations. It also provides guidelines on accessing scientific literature, and preparing scientific papers and presentations. An extensive instructor's manual containing sample lessons and student papers is available at www.cambridge.org/Marder.
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• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Compilation
• 3. Front cover illustration
• 4. Title
• 5. Abstract
• 6. Quotations
• 7. Thesis at a glance
• 8. Abbreviations
• 9. List of publications
• 10. Contributors
• 11. Popularized summary
• 12. Acknowledgements
• 13. General introduction
• 14. Aims
• 15. Methods
• 16. Results
• 17. General discussion
• 18. Copyright
• 19. A dissertation worth considering
• Appendix
• Index.
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The article-based thesis is becoming increasingly common, especially in the 'hard' sciences such as biology, medicine and technology, and is beginning to replace the traditional monograph. Format guidelines vary among universities. This is the first book to summarise the main features, showing the PhD student how to prepare a thesis in such a format. The suggestions are highly practical; both its good and bad examples from published theses support the author's wise advice on all aspects of such theses. Poor figures are not only scrutinised in detail but also redrawn for comparison. Guidance also covers the issues of reprint permissions and copyright. This informative and accessible book, from the author of How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper, has been developed through the author's extensive teaching experience in scientific writing and also his experience as a journal editor. It is therefore an indispensable guide to article-based thesis success.
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• 1. Spatial science and its traditions
• 2. Literature review
• 3. Research questions
• 4. Data and methods in spatial science
• 5. Graduate degree proposals
• 6. Grants and grant writing
• 7. Disseminating research
• 8. Reflections on proposal writing in spatial science
• 9. Model proposals
• 10. Thesis I: Human systems
• 11. Thesis II: Human systems-mixed methods
• 12. Dissertation I: Human-environmental interactions
• 13. Dissertation II: Geo-techniques
• 14. Dissertation III: Physical systems
• 15. Extramural Grant I: Collaborative research and outreach
• 16. Extramural Grant II: Instrumentation
• 17. Extramural III: Doctoral dissertation research improvement grant
• 18. Intramural grants.

The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when 'doing research'. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific issues of space, place, and scale as they propose and perform research in the spatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends plenty of concrete examples of spatial research and case studies to familiarize readers with the research process as it demystifies and exemplifies how to really do it. The appendix contains both completed and in-progress proposals for MA and PhD theses and dissertations. Emphasizing research as a learning and experiential process while providing students with the encouragement and skills needed for success in proposal writing, "Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science" can serve as a textbook for graduate-level research-design courses, as well as for undergraduate-level project-based spatial science courses. Keywords: proposal writing, grant writing, research, geography, spatial science

• Part 1. Style and Substance. Rules of engagement ; On being disciplined ; A guide to the style guides
• pt. 2. The Elements of Stylishness. Voice and echo ; Smart sentencing ; Tempting titles ; Hooks and sinkers ; The story net ; Show and tell ; Jargonitis ; Structural designs ; Points of reference ; The big picture ; The creative touch
• Afterword: becoming a stylish writer.

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read-and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.
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Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can't get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read-and to write.
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• Introduction. "A matter so obscure, so difficult, and likewise so new ..."
• Argument, narrative, and methods discourse
• Many, many experiments
• Trying again
• Newtonian poison: a mechanical account of viper venom
• Experiment as the only guide
• Thousands of experiments
• Practical criticisms
• Controlling experiment
• Unobservables
• Fragmentation and modularity: notes on crotoxin
• Conclusion. About methods.

Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged, and the true meaning of commitment to experimentation altered. In About Method, Schickore captures this complex trajectory of change from 1660 to the twentieth century through the history of snake venom research. As experiments with poisonous snakes and venom were both challenging and controversial, the experimenters produced very detailed records of their investigations, which go back three hundred years making it uniquely suited for such a long-term study. By analyzing key episodes in the transformation of venom research, Schickore is able to draw out the factors that have shaped methods discourse. About Method shows that methodological advancement throughout history has not been simply a steady progression towards better, more sophisticated and improved methodologies of experimentation. Rather, it was a progression in awareness of the obstacles and limitations that scientists face in developing strategies to overcome the myriad unknown complexities of nature. The first long-term history of this development and of snake venom research, About Method offers a major contribution to integrated history and philosophy of science.
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• Spatial Science and its Traditions.- Literature Reviews.- Research Questions.- Data and Methods in Spatial Science.- Graduate Degree Proposals.- Grants and Grant Writing.- Disseminating Research.- Reflections on Proposal Writing in Spatial Science.- Model Proposals.- Theses I and II: Human Systems-Qualitative.- Dissertation I: Human Systems.- Dissertation II: Geo-Techniques.- Dissertation III: Physical Systems.- Extramural Grant I: Research.- Extramural Grant II: Instrumentation.- Extramural III: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.- Intramural Grants.- Index.
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Unique among the soil literature, this graduate-level text and reference treats the subjects related to the interdisciplinary fields of soil pollution and remediation. After a thorough and comprehensible introduction to the relevant fundamentals of the mineralogy, chemistry, and properties of soil, readers are well prepared to understand the biochemical aspects of soil remediation then presented. Mathematical modelling and soil monitoring are covered in a manner enabling readers from various disciplines to acquire the scientific literacy that makes further reading and research practical. The book's holistic approach and narrative style are complemented by numerous and detailed illustrations. Not only will graduate students and instructors find it useful for teaching and study, but Soil Pollution also offers professionals from the earth, environmental, and agricultural sciences the integrated overview of previously separately treated materials they may have been seeking.
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• Introduction / John T. Gage
• Chaïm Perelman: a life well lived / Noémi Perelman Mattis
• Empiricism, securement, and The New Rhetoric / Barbara Warnick
• "No neutral choices": the art of style in The New Rhetoric / Jeanne Fahnestock
• The function of the "universal audience" in Perelman's rhetoric: looking back on a theoretical issue / Loïc Nicolas
• Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's new rhetoric / David A. Frank and Michelle K. Bolduc
• Solving the mystery of presence: verbal/visual interaction in Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs / Alan G. Gross
• Kenneth Burke's "identification" and Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's "communion": a case of convergent evolution? / Richard Graff and Wendy Winn
• Language and axiological rationality: the "non-thought" of French linguistics in the mirror of The New Rhetoric / Roselyne Koren
• Perelman on democracy as a confused notion / Ray D. Dearin
• Philosophical art or rhetorical skill: how Perelman's ethical pluralism makes McKeon's analytical pluralism ethically conscientious / Linda Bensel-Meyers
• RhETHorICS / Jean Nienkamp
• Awakening the topoi: sources of invention in The New Rhetoric's argument model / James Crosswhite
• Analogical reasoning in the teaching of science: the case of Richard Feynman's physics / Maria Freddi
• From laconic apothegms to film quotations: rhetorical advantages of shared paroemiai / Paula Olmos
• A timeless attack: essence and definition arguments in Leo Tolstoy's The kingdom of God is within you / Mark Hoffmann.

No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning-and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century-than Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's monumental study of argumentation, La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation. Published in 1958 and translated into English as The New Rhetoric in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick, Jeanne Fahnestock, Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin, and James Crosswhite are joined by prominent and emerging European and American scholars from different disciplines to demonstrate the broad scope and continued relevance of The New Rhetoric more than fifty years after its initial publication. Divided into four sections-Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric, Extensions of The New Rhetoric, The Ethical Turn in Perelman and The New Rhetoric, and Uses of The New Rhetoric-this insightful volume covers a wide variety of topics. It includes general assessments of The New Rhetoric and its central concepts, as well as applications of those concepts to innovative areas in which argumentation is being studied, such as scientific reasoning, visual media, and literary texts. Additional essays compare Perelman's ideas with those of other significant thinkers like Kenneth Burke and Richard McKeon, explore his career as a philosopher and activist, and shed new light on Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca's collaboration. Two contributions present new scholarship based on recent access to letters, interviews, and archival materials housed in the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Among the volume's unique gifts is a personal memoir from Perelman's daughter, Noemi Perelman Mattis, published here for the first time. The Promise of Reason, expertly compiled and edited by John T. Gage, is the first to investigate the pedagogical implications of Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca's groundbreaking work and will lead the way to the next generation of argumentation studies.
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• Introduction / John T. Gage
• Chaïm Perelman: a life well lived / Noémi Perelman Mattis
• Empiricism, securement, and The New Rhetoric / Barbara Warnick
• "No neutral choices": the art of style in The New Rhetoric / Jeanne Fahnestock
• The function of the "universal audience" in Perelman's rhetoric: looking back on a theoretical issue / Loïc Nicolas
• Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's new rhetoric / David A. Frank and Michelle K. Bolduc
• Solving the mystery of presence: verbal/visual interaction in Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs / Alan G. Gross
• Kenneth Burke's "identification" and Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's "communion": a case of convergent evolution? / Richard Graff and Wendy Winn
• Language and axiological rationality: the "non-thought" of French linguistics in the mirror of The New Rhetoric / Roselyne Koren
• Perelman on democracy as a confused notion / Ray D. Dearin
• Philosophical art or rhetorical skill: how Perelman's ethical pluralism makes McKeon's analytical pluralism ethically conscientious / Linda Bensel-Meyers
• RhETHorICS / Jean Nienkamp
• Awakening the topoi: sources of invention in The New Rhetoric's argument model / James Crosswhite
• Analogical reasoning in the teaching of science: the case of Richard Feynman's physics / Maria Freddi
• From laconic apothegms to film quotations: rhetorical advantages of shared paroemiai / Paula Olmos
• A timeless attack: essence and definition arguments in Leo Tolstoy's The kingdom of God is within you / Mark Hoffmann.

No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning-and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century-than Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's monumental study of argumentation, La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation. Published in 1958 and translated into English as The New Rhetoric in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick, Jeanne Fahnestock, Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin, and James Crosswhite are joined by prominent and emerging European and American scholars from different disciplines to demonstrate the broad scope and continued relevance of The New Rhetoric more than fifty years after its initial publication. Divided into four sections-Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric, Extensions of The New Rhetoric, The Ethical Turn in Perelman and The New Rhetoric, and Uses of The New Rhetoric-this insightful volume covers a wide variety of topics. It includes general assessments of The New Rhetoric and its central concepts, as well as applications of those concepts to innovative areas in which argumentation is being studied, such as scientific reasoning, visual media, and literary texts. Additional essays compare Perelman's ideas with those of other significant thinkers like Kenneth Burke and Richard McKeon, explore his career as a philosopher and activist, and shed new light on Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca's collaboration. Two contributions present new scholarship based on recent access to letters, interviews, and archival materials housed in the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Among the volume's unique gifts is a personal memoir from Perelman's daughter, Noemi Perelman Mattis, published here for the first time. The Promise of Reason, expertly compiled and edited by John T. Gage, is the first to investigate the pedagogical implications of Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca's groundbreaking work and will lead the way to the next generation of argumentation studies.
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• Beginning
• Choosing an advisor and a committee
• Getting started writing
• From zero to first draft
• Getting to the midpoint : reviewing your process and your progress
• Interruptions from outside and inside
• You, your readers, and the dissertation support group
• Revising : the second draft and beyond
• The best dissertation is a done dissertation
• Life after the dissertation.

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion. Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge. -- Provided by publisher.

• Contents: Part A Preparation: Research and the research student
• Selecting and justifying a research project
• Planning the research project
• Literature searching. Part B Data Analysis and Gathering: Analysing the data
• Gathering the data. Part C Producing the Research Results: Executing the research
• Presentation of the research findings. Appendices: An example of topic analysis
• A select bibliography on student research
• Books and articles cited in the main text. Index.
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The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years. The ability to carry out research successfully has come to be seen as a 'key transferable skill' required of all higher education students - and The Management of a Student Research Project addresses directly the skill element of this. Furthermore the research process, at all levels, is far more systematized than in the past. The single largest change since the second edition came out in 1996 has been the impact of the World Wide Web on student research. The third edition has been thoroughly rewritten and developed in response to this. In particular, Chapter 4, 'Literature Searching', has been structured around a sample online search. Throughout, the comments and thoughts of readers of previous editions have been taken into account in framing this third edition. Its aims remain the same - to provide a clear, comprehensive and useful guide to students undertaking research projects in order to improve their chances of a successful outcome.
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• Evolution of expert searching
• Search question definition and negotiation
• Resource selection and evaluation
• Search strategy development
• Search review and evaluation
• Search documentation and management of search results
• Current picture and future directions
• Search tools and resources.

Is there a role for expert searchers the Google age? Jankowski answers this question with a resounding yes! After a short history lesson and discussion of librarians' roles, you will walk through the entire search cycle from the art of question negotiation to resource selection and strategy development and finish with tips for documenting the process. A quick peek into the future of searching and a stroll through tools to keep close at hand complete the book. Examples, checklists (for interviews, resource selection, search development and more) as well as opportunities to apply the knowledge g.