| Description |
1 online resource (217) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Learning from your research project -- The stepping stones of your research project -- 2 The preliminaries: getting started -- Choosing a topic -- Your university studies -- Your school years -- Your work experience -- The world around you -- The university library -- Narrowing your topic -- Drafting a research project proposal -- The organization of your project -- 3 Working with your supervisor |
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Initiating the student�supervisor relationshipWriting emails to your supervisor -- The components of your email -- Longer emails -- Email etiquette -- Insights from the literature 3.1: emailing your instructors -- 4 Finding literature -- What are academic sources? -- Keywords -- Where to look for literature -- The Internet -- The library -- Electronic bibliographic resources -- Recording bibliographic information -- 5 Reading -- Reading strategically -- Academic reading -- Reading a journal article -- Reading a book -- Note-taking while reading |
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Understanding complex nounsInsights from the literature 5.1: complexity in academic texts -- From reading to writing: critically engaging with the literature -- Showing limitations, disagreeing or extending previous claims -- Insights from the literature 5.2: the reading�writing nexus -- 6 Collecting data -- Access and ethical issues -- Choosing your participants -- Data collection instruments -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Insights from the literature 6.1: developing your interview skills -- Observations -- Piloting your data collection instrument |
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Focus-group discussionsThink-aloud protocols -- Insights from the literature 6.2: thinking aloud and data collection -- 7 Your project chapter by chapter -- Starting to write -- The Introduction -- Insights from the literature 7.1: the Introduction in moves -- The Literature Review -- Describing methods -- Insights from the literature 7.2: moves and methods -- Presenting quantitative data -- Analysing and presenting qualitative data -- Reporting results -- Discussing results -- The Conclusion |
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Insights from the literature 7.3: from the Discussion to the Conclusion in moves8 Features of academic writing -- Sounding �academic� in writing -- Summaries, quotations and paraphrases -- Paraphrasing -- Quotations -- Insights from the literature 8.1: why cite? -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Insights from the literature 8.2: approaches to plagiarism -- Using the language of the discipline -- Academic language: style and register -- Linking words -- Insights from the literature 8.3: linking words and semantic relationships -- The pronoun �I� |
| Summary |
Doing a Research Project in English Studies is the essential guide to undertaking research and developing academic English literacy skills for students new to research. With a particular focus on the needs of students in contexts where English is used as a foreign or an additional language, this accessible textbook takes the reader through the research process in five main sections:getting started (arriving at a topic, interacting with a supervisor);finding bibliographic resources;collecting data;developing academic writing skills;preparing for the oral defence. Each chapter contains exercises |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Research -- Methodology
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Academic writing.
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Academic writing
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Research -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
131752022X |
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9781317520221 |
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9781317520214 |
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9781317520191 |
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131752019X |
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1317520211 |
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9781315720852 |
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131572085X |
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