Chapter 5 explores “best practice” pertaining to who to prepare and plan for the research process. It gave great insight in to understanding and working with the three types of sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It gave clear and persist information on the definition of each, and how they are use in the early stages of planning your research plan.
In Chapter 6, focused on “how to engage your sources productively and how to take notes so that readers can trust you when you rely on or critique a source” (Booth 85). One thing I enjoyed about this chapter, is how it made a case for taking notes on notecards, in this modern age of technology. This chapter also gave powerful insight into reading for problems and the argument with reference to working with sources.
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And to create a strong argument, it must contain, “a claim, reason, evidence, acknowledgment, and warrant” (Booth 110). Chapters 8 – 10, further broke down the steps and cited examples. The most difficult step to understand, and even master good research is warrant process. Even the text mentions, this is a difficult process for new researcher.
“The Art of Writing Proposals”
This article summarizes the function of a proposals. According to Przeworski and Salomon, when trying to “persuade a committee of scholars, the project shines with three kinds of merit, conceptual innovation, methodological rigor, and substantive content.” Committees read materials from numerous submissions, you must learn how to make your stand out covering the “best practices” mentioned above.
Doing History #66: Simon Newman, “How Historians Find Their