EDUC 502: English for Research: On The Shelves

This book provides analysis of academic genres and the use of corpus resources, methods and analytical tools for research.

This essential handbook takes the student from research proposal, through literature reviews, research methods, and writing up, through to submission and marking.

Writing in Response emphasizes the key techniques common to reading, thinking, and writing throughout the humanities and social sciences by teaching students the value of a social, incremental, and recursive writing process. The new edition includes more on working with digital tools, more help for writing, and updated readings.

This research reference guide has been written to supplement research-oriented courses. It covers all aspects of the research writing process from selecting a topic and gathering data to formatting the final draft.

This volume presents a selection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse, and illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

This text focuses on Islamic, Indian and Far Eastern civilizations, offering readings of classical teachings and contemporary theoretical developments which are useful for discourses in the classroom

This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged.

In this book, the author provides a critical history of experimental writing theory and its aesthetic foundations and demonstrates their application to current multimodal writing. Sullivan unpacks the work of major scholars in composition and rhetoric and their theories on aesthetics, particularly avant-gardism. She also relates the dialectics that shape these aesthetics and sheds new light on both the positive and negative aspects of experimental writing and its attempts to redefine the writing disciplines.

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing.

Prepares students to write a questionnaire, generate a sample, conduct their own survey research, analyse data and write up the results.

The book is a resource and training tool for researchers. Examples and stories illuminating all aspects of qualitative inquiry offers more balance between applied research and evaluation.

Focusing on the integral role of the researcher, this book uses a conversational writing style.After presenting theoretical concepts and a historical overview, the book provides step-by-step coverage of the research process, addressing issues of analyzing data, presenting completed research, and evaluating research.

This edition includes new studies and examples that explore the use of Twitter feeds in social sciences research, the effect of climate change on human conflict, the use of rational intuition in explaining the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, and more. The book also cover conducting qualitative research in the digital age,use of the Internet and various computer software packages for retrieving, cleaning, coding, and analyzing "big data."