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You can create your own criteria. Before doing so, find out what criteria for assessing literary works are already out there and whether they will work for your purposes. When creating your own criteria, you need to justify it; explain why it’s needed, and how it differs from existing criteria.
I'd imagine that it would be hard creating and justifying your own criteria in a field that already has potentially strict and already well-justified criteria. I would think that your logical reasoning in justifying it would have to be incredibly sound.
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To help get started, see the following sites:
I've used Zotero before for a previous class and really enjoyed it. Storing all of your citations in once designated place is super helpful and streamlined the research process a lot.
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The title can help you establish credibility
I hadn't realized the importance of a title before in regards to how it reflects on your credibility as a researcher and writer. The other aspects I already had an idea of, but this does make a lot of sense to me and will make me consider my titles more carefully for my future projects.
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one of the authors of this textbook, was a graduate student, his professor told him that his writing style did not meet the standards for graduate-level work. Mauer admitted that his writing needed improvement, but told his professor he “had good ideas.” The professor answered: “If your writing is not clear to your reader, you have no ideas.”
It's nice to know that even Dr. Mauer has struggled a bit with his writing previously. The advice from his professor is really good and makes a lot of sense!
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To avoid confusion, define all key terms in your paper before you begin a discussion about them. Even if you think your audience knows the definition of key terms, readers want to see how you understand the terms before you move ahead.
Your audience needs to understand how YOU as a writer understand the more significant terms that you may use. Definitions can be subjective, so this is a good way to increase clarity within research.
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For more advice on overcoming writer’s block and setting your mindset before writing, click on the following links from WritingCommons.org:
I agree with other annotators about withing that there was more advice in terms of executive dysfunction issues that writers may experience. I am someone who struggles with lots of issues related to executive dysfunction, and some of the more generic advice regarding writer's block generally doesn't help me. I think the advice isn't bad, it just doesn't work for everyone.
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The typical purpose of a research project in literary studies is to convince an audience to share your conclusion about a work of literature (or about a genre, a historical period, an author, a theory, etc.).
We must engage within falsification and logical reasoning to properly convince our audience of our conclusion. Even then, our reasoning and evidence is subject to scrutiny by the wider community.
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However, what other people think of our work does matter.
I like this commentary in regards to what others think of our work. We can only grow as researchers and expand upon the current discourse by disagreeing improving the current research.
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Your choice of problem, theory, methodology, and method impact the kinds of evidence you will be seeking. Wendy Belcher identifies the following types:
Research skills are all about evidence. Evidence can include qualitative, quantitative, historical, geographic, textual, and artistic. I'm mostly familiar with qualitative and quantitative but I think exploring other avenues of evidence for research is incredibly interesting.
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When we try to solve important problems, we advance our knowledge. A problem can be technical like how to design a bridge that withstands wind pressure and soil erosion; philosophical like how to understand the nature of being; economic like how to make our resources go further; political like how to ensure the rights of immigrants; or historical like how to understand why the U.S. government incarcerated approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Problems are not always a bad thing to have, and can actually be a good thing when it comes to research due to our ability to expand upon our knowledge and understanding of the world. This can take place through philosophical, technical, political, or historical means.
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