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Chapter 4 ENV : Planning and Proposing Research Arguments & Chapter 12 A&B : Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas. Kayla Wallace & Tiffany Harris. Asking Research Questions. Ask yourself: What are you drawn to first? The words or images? What is the significance of what you are seeing?
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Chapter 4 ENV: Planning and Proposing Research Arguments &Chapter 12 A&B: Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas Kayla Wallace & Tiffany Harris
Asking Research Questions • Ask yourself: • What are you drawn to first? The words or images? • What is the significance of what you are seeing? • Research Topic • Focus ideas • Ask more specific questions • Research Log • Keep of track of research and sources
Generating Topics and Research Questions • Select engaging topic • Generate questions by responding to rhetorical situation • Consider what interests you about topic
Bringing Your Topic into Focus • Prewriting • Graphic Brainstorming • Webbing • Focus on one subsection • Narrowing Topic • Write topic • Ask questions based on close analysis • Refine topic by answering question • Revise narrow topic – make more specific • Identify significant aspects to explore • Use answers to focus topic
Planning Your Research Through Writing • Develop concrete plan • Freewriting • Three paragraph model • Drafting Research Hypothesis • Drafting a Research Proposal • Background • Methods • Sources • Timeline • Significance
Writer’s Process Answers the Question “So What?”
Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas • Synthesis: “way of seeing and coming to terms with complexities” • Analysis: “break it down into its parts to see the relationships among them” • Benjamin Bloom • 5th of Six Levels of thinking processes • Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation • Hegel – German Philosopher • A thesis clashes with antithesis = synthesis involving both thesis and antithesis
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Understanding Analysis and Synthesis • Synthesis Question • Synthesis Essays • Extension of Summary/Strong Response Writing • Features • Statement of synthesis question • Short summaries of texts • Thesis • Analysis of key points • Your new view