Considers the methods, evidence, and logic that social scientists use to create new knowledge claims. Pg.___ Features comprehensive coverage of research methods, including how to plan and propose original research, how to gather data or evidence from sources and how to document it. Pg.___ Goes beyond the typical survey of library tools and offers a brief chapter on how to use the Internet as a research tool. Pg.___ Features five chapters on the primary research methods of interpreting primary documents, interviewing, observing, surveying, and experimenting. Pg.

___ Contains many examples, both professional and student, throughout. Pg.___ Presents general principles of effective visual rhetoric graphics and document design with a brief introduction to using computers to design easy-to-read documents. Pg.___ Contains a primer for creating effective graphics. Pg.___ Features a chapter on oral presentations that provides a brief but comprehensive treatment of how to plan, organize, and rehearse an effective oral presentation. Pg.

___ Focuses on the social nature of writing. Treats genres as social constructions that help people within a discourse community exchange desired information persuasively and efficiently. Pg.___ Give pointers for collaborating in research and writing and illustrates them with professional texts produced by collaboration. Pg.___ Encourages students to collaborate on assignments and review each other's work through all stages of research and writing. Pg.___ Surveys career-related genres and provides advice on how to seek a job or admission to graduate and professional schools.

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