WAYNE C. BOOYH GREGORY G. COLOMB JOSEPH M. WILLIAMS THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH (Chapter one) Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private by WAYNE C. BOOYH GREGORY G. COLOMB JOSEPH M. WILLIAMS 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Research - where? 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Research (what & Why?) Is simply gathering the information we need to answer a question and thereby we solve a problem; We do it to freeze ourselves from loneliness (on what we see and hear); We do it in order to develop and change the world; we do it in order to contribute to the human knowledge; 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Research Everyone everyday does it; Very few of us do write what we find, and we keep rely on the research of others who did write up their findings. 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Why write it up? Write to Remember; Write to Understand; Write to Gain Perspective 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Write to remember Some special people can gather information without recording it; Most of us do forget when new facts come up; Most of us need additional notes to carry on conversations, otherwise we are likely to forget or misremember; researchers write from the beginning to the end of their project for better understanding and retention of their findings. 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Write to understand It creates more clearly the relationship among our ideas; It enables us to arrange and rearrange the results of our research in new ways, we see new connections and contrasts, complications and implications we might otherwise have missed; It help us in understanding what we are learning by creating a larger patterns of meaning and significance. 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Write to gain Perspective Our thoughts become more clearer light on papers than in minds; We improve our thinking when we encourage it with notes, outlines, summaries, commentary, and other forms of thinking on paper; we can reflect on our thoughts clearly only if we separate them from the swift of our thinking and fix them in coherent written form; 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Write to gain Perspective We write so that we can think better; We write so that we can remember more; We write so that we can see more clearly. And as we shall see, the better we write, the more critically we can read. 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Why Turn it into a Formal Paper? Why should we adopt language and forms that are not ours? What’s wrong with our language, our concerns? Why can’t we report our research in our own way? Why should we turn our work into a formal essay or research report? 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Why Turn it into a Formal Paper? Learning to do research will change the way we think (our lives) by giving us more ways of thinking; we will be different for having done research, because we will be freer to choose who we want to be. Writing for others is more demanding than writing for ourselves, 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Why Turn it into a Formal Paper? The research paper is a way of interaction between the writer and the reader; The research paper must meet the reader’s expectations and satisfy the standards forms; writing a research paper is just thinking in print (it gives our ideas the the attention they deserve). 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane All we need is To make plans; and Create value of research 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Presented by Avelino I.Mondlane

Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane Thank You! 1/18/2019 Presented by Avelino I. Mondlane