Extract 2

Dec 212013

It’s a wet and windy day today, a day for staying in.

Will aim to finish reading online the book ‘The craft of research’ as mentioned in Extract 1.

Here’s 2nd extract :-

Regularly test your progress by asking a roommate, relative, or friend to force you to flesh out those three steps. Even if you can’t take them all confidently, you’ll know where you are and where you still have to go.
To summarize: Your aim is to explain
1. what you are writing about— I am working on the topic of . . .
2. what you don’t know about it— because I want to find out . . .
3. why you want your reader to know and care about it— in order to help my reader understand better . . .

Extract 1

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Dec 202013

Moving from ‘timelessness’ to getting on with my research activities…

I call this post ‘Extract 1′ as I will post snippet of extracts from books/journals that I want reminding on. Please note that these extracts are for educational research purposes only, and in full compliance with all manner of intellectual property rights. I have no intention to violate any such rules or regulations.

First extract is from ‘The craft of research’ by Booth, Wayne C. (Wayne Clayson); Colomb, Gregory G; Williams, Joseph M, 2008 (online book) :-

Resolve to do lots of writing along the way. Much of it will be
routine note taking, … explain why you disagree with a source; draw diagrams to connect disparate facts; summarize sources, positions,..; record even random thoughts. You might not include much of this writing-to-discover-and-understand in your final draft. But when you write as you go,every day, you encourage your own best critical thinking, understand your sources better, and, when the time comes, draft more productively.

So I resolve to write (whenever!) as ‘writing is thinking’.
Mmm… I tend to doodle more, so will also doodle along the way.