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These documents provide general information about the academic writing and research process. They been developed for and with the help of BIS students in a number of different courses. Writing Workshops Clarity & Clutter - Workshop What's In A Paragraph? - Workshop What's the Point? (Paragraph Version) - Workshop What's the Point? - Observations What's Your Point? (Full Essay Version) - Workshop Specificity - Workshop (Corlett) Working Introductions - Worksheet   On Academic Writing Writing Assignment Types Overview of an Academic Essay (Duffin) Questions to Ask: Critically Evaluating an Essay or Article Writing a Critical Response Critical Response - Sample How To Do A Close Reading (HWC) Counterpoints (HWC) Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper (Pryor) 12 Ways to Cut Clutter from Your Writing   Writing Partner Responsibilities Offering and Receiving Constructive Feedback Revision Strategies (Marotta) Workshopping Goals & Methods (Marotta) Facilitating a Seminar or Discussion   Plagiarism Orwell on Writing - 6 Rules   Research Goals of a Research Proposal Elements of Capstone Research Proposal Our Slogans - What Research Involves Research as a Craft Mind Mapping Habits of Mind and Research   Research Process Overview: The “Big Rocks” Topics and Questions - Reflections Focused Topic - Worksheet Finding Questions - Worksheet Topic, Question, Signifiance - Worksheet Why a Research Question - Student Responses Research Questions - Illustrations Research Questions Characteristics - Worksheet Research Questions & Assumptions What's A Literature Review? Citing Sources Why a Thesis? Developing a Thesis (HWC) Making a Claim and Supporting It Evauating Arguments Structural Outlines - Workshop Research Essay Workshop - Worksheet Research Essay Grading Guidelines   Resources Princeton Writing Center Princeton JP Handbook Harvard Writing Center - Writing Tools Nuts and Bolts of College Writing Writing Resources UVa Library Resources Writing With Sources (Harvey) RefWorks Citing Internet Sources The Citation Machine   Booth et al, The Craft of Research Lamott, Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life Murray, The Craft of Revision Strunk & White, The Elements of Style Turabian, .A Manual for Writers Zinsser, On Writing Well "Best Books on Writing" - An Amazon Listmania list   If You're Working In a Team Team Checklist Team Self-Evaluation Template Team Action Plan Template For information contact : Glenn Kessler 434-982-5345 gkessler@virginia.edu

The Research Process The "Big Rocks" a) Find a good question Getting started Readers, topics & questions Topic revisited b) Locate sound and relevant research Finding sources Literature review c) Find and try to support a good answer to your question Arguments & methodology d) Get feedback and start again First draft Counterpoint Presentation Capstone Proposals Capstone Projects Proseminar