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The Craft of Research is an excellent book on conducting research, it is the book you can always re-read and get inspiration. It starts with claiming doing research is a critical skill for everyone not just students(part 1). Then the author continues to suggest how to pick up a topic and eventually develop it into questions-problems-solution/answers, and collect evidence to support the answers in chapter 2. In chapter 3, it gives advice on forming your claim based on your problem and resources.
Since I have already finished experiments for my project and just started writing the paper, I focused on Part 4 — Writing Your Argument.
- Planning and Drafting
- Organising Your Argument
- Incorporating Sources
- Communicating Evidence Visually
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly
- My thoughts
1. Planning and Drafting
The authors suggest planning in this way:
(1) sketching a working introduction and conclusion even though you might need to revise them. You have to determine the keywords, and emphasize the significance. Different people writing the same project might have…
