Who's Your Source?: A Writer's Guide to Effectively Evaluating and Ethically Using Resources

ISBN-13: 9781554814848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Melissa M. Bender; Karma Waltonen

Spis treści

• Introduction, Or What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Sources
• Chapter One: The Other Three Rs: A Three-Part Evaluation Strategy
• A. Introduction to Rhetoric
• B. Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Ethos, Pathos
• C. Rhetorical Situation: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Context
• D. Reality Check
• E. The Three Rs in Action: A Sample Source Evaluation
• Chapter Two: Evaluating Academic Resources
• A. Introduction
• B. Why Do We Use Academic Resources?
• C. Test Your Current Knowledge About Academic Resources
• D. Peer Review
• E. Academic Genres
• F. How to Use Academic Sources Ethically and Effectively
• G. The Three Rs in Action: A Sample Source Evaluation
• H. Student Writing Sample
• Chapter Three: Evaluating Non-Academic Resources
• A. Introduction: How to Tell the Difference Between Reliable and Non-reliable Resources
• B. To Google or Not to Google
• C. Is Wikipedia reliable?
• D. How to Spot Fake News
• E. Other Kinds of Non-Academic Sources
• F. The Three Rs and Non-Academic Resources
• G. How to Use Non-Academic Resources Ethically and Effectively
• Chapter Four: Logical Fallacies
• A. Introduction
• B. Fallacies of Logos
• C. Fallacies of Pathos
• D. Fallacies of Ethos
• E. Avoiding Fallacies
• F. Pythonesque Logic
• Chapter Five: The Search: The Research Process
• A. Introduction
• B. Why Your Librarian is Better Than Google (Scholar)
• C. How to Find Academic Sources
• D. How to Find Non-academic Sources
• E. Notes on Notes
• Chapter Six: Other Sources: Interviews, Focus Groups, and Surveys
• A. Introduction
• B. The Value of Interviews and Focus Groups as Sources
• C. Effective and Ethical Procedures for Conducting Interviews
• D. The Value of Surveys as Sources
• E. Survey Genres: Naturalistic Observation, Questionnaires, Likert Scales
• F. Effective and Ethical Procedures for Conducting Surveys
• G. How to Use Interviews and Surveys Effectively in Your Writing
• Chapter Seven: Visual Rhetoric
• A. Introduction
• B. Charts, Tables, and Graphs
• C. Ethics and Visual Representations of Data
• D. Guidelines for Evaluating and Creating Effective and Ethical Tables, Charts, and Graphs
• E. Illustrations, Photos, and Videos
• F. Ethics and Visual Images
• G. Guidelines for Evaluating Images and Using Them Ethically
• Chapter Eight: Using Sources to Support and Develop Your Argument
• A. Introduction
• B. How Professional Writers Use Sources for Research
• C. Your Research Question, Your Sources, and Your Writing Anxiety
• D. How Professional Writers Use Sources in Their Writing
• E. Student Writing Sample
• F. Mind the Gap
• G. Chapter Recap
• Chapter Nine: Ethical Writing is Good Writing
• A. Introduction
• B. How to Create Flow
• C. Summary and Paraphrase versus Plagiarism
• D. Citation Practices
• E. Footnotes, Endnotes, and the Rest
• F. Under and Overciting
• G. What You Need to Look Up
• Works Cited
• Acknowledgements