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Research, write, create : connecting scholarship and digital media

Author

Gibson, Twyla, author.

Title

Research, write, create : connecting scholarship and digital media / Twyla Gibson, Mark Lipton.

Format

Book

Published

Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Description

xiv, 232 pages ; 23 cm

Other contributors

Lipton, Mark, author.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index. Text in English.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Embarking on a Research Journey
• Chapter Outline
• New Technologies and Scholarship
• From Page to Screen
• Changing Patterns of Research in Digital Environments
• Beginning the Research Journey
• Research Strategy
• Ranking Sources Based on Reliability and Trustworthiness
• Learning to Search Online Databases
• Keywords
• Academic Integrity
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 2.Finding and Narrowing a Topic
• Chapter Outline
• Getting Started
• Selecting a Research Topic
• What Is the Rationale or Purpose for Your Research?
• Moving from Your Interests to a Topic
• A Refined Topic and Its Components
• Topic to Problem
• Problem to Question
• Question to Hypothesis
• Hypothesis to Position
• Creative Project Design
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 3.An Ecology of Digital Tools and Tactics
• Chapter Outline
• Blogging
• Wikis for Collaboration
• Wikis versus Blogs
• Microblogging
• Aggregators

• Contents note continued: Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 4.Digital Media in Research
• Chapter Outline
• Social Networks
• Podcasts
• Social Bookmarking
• Folksonomy
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 5.Creating with Digital Media Tools
• Chapter Outline
• Document Sharing
• VoIP Technologies
• Digital Image Collections
• Digital and Streaming Video
• Citation Managers
• Global Positioning System (GPS) Technologies
• Digital Technologies and Scholarship
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 6.The Proposal
• Chapter Outline
• Creating a Quality Proposal for a Digital Project
• The Basic Proposal Format
• Proposed Title for Your Project
• General Considerations
• The Introduction
• Review of Literature
• Methodology and Digital Tools and Techniques
• Timeline
• Bibliography
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 7.Research and New Technologies
• Chapter Outline
• Research and New Technologies
• Discipline-Specific Genres

• Contents note continued: What Do All Essays Have in Common?
• Integrating New Media
• Clarify Expectations for the Assignment Descriptions with the Professor
• Disciplines as Discourse Communities
• Theories and Methods
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 8.Planning and Drafting
• Chapter Outline
• Major Kinds of Scholarly Essays
• Purposes of Research Essays
• Abstract
• Making a Major Project More Manageable
• Term Project
• Thesis
• Capstone Project
• Associations, Journals, and eResources
• Identifying Relevant Associations
• Discipline-Specific eJournals, eBooks, and Databases
• Evaluating Research Studies
• Filtering Documents Found on the Internet
• Drafting the Essay
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 9.The Introduction
• Chapter Outline
• Titles and Subtitles
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Research Question
• Hypothesis
• Thesis Statement
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 10.The Review of Literature
• Chapter Outline

• Contents note continued: Review of Literature
• Research Problems as Puzzles
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 11.Methods, Methodology, and Digital Media
• Chapter Outline
• The Methodology Section
• Designing the Research Method
• Discipline-Specific Methods
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 12.Methodology and the Project as a Whole
• Chapter Outline
• Building Connections among the Sections of the Study
• Methods
• Triangulation
• The Big Picture: Creating the Total Project
• Developing the Total Project
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary
• 13.Analysis, Results, and Conclusion
• Chapter Outline
• Creating a Coherent Study
• Creating Links among Parts of the Study
• The Analysis or Body of the Study
• The Results or Findings of the Study
• The Conclusion of the Digital Essay
• Endnotes
• The Final Bibliography
• Appendix or Appendixes
• Style and Substance
• Revising and Polishing the Total Project
• Final Checklist
• Chapter Summary.

Subject headings

Report writing. Research. Report writing--Computer network resources. Research--Computer network resources. Digital media. Learning and scholarship.

ISBN

9780195447415 (pbk.) 0195447417 (pbk.)