The process of research writing

Steven Krause has provided open access to his online textbook The Process of Research Writing on the web, making it an excellent online resource to include for students learning the complexities of research writing. Exercises and group work are included. This is one to put onto your Library web site.

Students begin by having to carefully think about a topic of research for the semester and by developing a working thesis. They then write a series of shorter essays that explore that topic. All along the way, students are continuing to research and revise their working thesis so that by the end of the term, their thinking about their original topic of research has evolved. As a result, they are not only prepared to write a “traditional” research paper; they better understand what it means to conduct academic research, which I believe is the real goal of an introductory writing course.

The Table of Contents provides a quick overview of this online resource. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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