You may wish to name this page something more specific to the course assignments, for instance: Exploring Topics, What's My Research Question?, Research Proposal, Literature Review, Finding the Gaps, How Do I Choose a Topic?, etc. Feel free to use the content in the boxes below, or to delete these for your own original content.
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Learn more about narrowing a topic and developing a research question.
What could a writer/presenter/performer do with this source?
More on "How to Use Sources Effectively."
Based on Bizup, J. (2008). BEAM: A rhetorical vocabulary for teaching research-based writing. Rhetoric Review 27.1, 72-86.
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Definitions |
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Primary Sources (first hand or contemporary accounts) |
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Secondary Sources (comprehensive and/or detailed analyses) |
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Facts |
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Current Events, Popular Culture |
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Historical Information |
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