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Research Questions

Cumulative
Choose topic that interests you
Choose an audience youre writing for
Make a well-researched and sustained argument

Annotated Bibliography
and Research Paper

 What do I want to know that I dont already know?

Five features of a good research question:
1. Is the question researchable? Can you find data that
can serve as evidence to support your claims and
argument?
2. Can the question be answered with evidence at your
disposal?

Generating a Research
Question

3. Does it avoid a simplistic right answer? The

answer to the question should be arguable/debatable
something that a reasonably informed person
might disagree on.
4. Is it interesting to you and to your readers?
5. Is it fully answered by your writing?

Features of a Research
Question Continued

 Ethos
What topics are within your territory of expertise?
What is your territory?

Pathos
What topics will interest your audience? What will they
believe is important?
What common ground or beliefs does your audience hold?

The Rhetorical Triangle

 Logos
What topics deserve attention/are currently trending?
Are academics scholars writing about this topic? Where? In
venues for public audiences? In scholarly venues? In
scholarly venues that are available to you (in the library or
via interlibrary loan)?
How expert can you become on this topic? What do you
already understand about this topic? What will you be able
to comprehend about this topic?

The Rhetorical Triangle

KNOW THYSELF
And imagine what its like to be others

How have you made sense of complicated, important things

in other parts of your life? What sort of strategies or habits
did you develop in order to address those parts, and how
can you bring them into the work you will be doing on this
paper?

Freewrite

 What counts:

Books
Blogs
Magazine articles
Twitter and Facebook
posts
YouTube videos
News articles

Where to find them:

Library catalog
Google

Popular Sources

 What counts:
Books
Articles, especially
peer-reviewed

Where to find them:

Library catalog
Google Scholar
Library databases

Scholarly Sources

 https://scholar.google.com/
Note: Google Scholar can be a bit of a crapshoot
sometimescant filter by peer-reviewed
http://www.library.illinois.edu /
Databases and Journals list arrow
Navigate to Databases by Subject
Good general databases:
Academic Search Complete
EBSCO
ProQuest

Databases

 http://guides.library.illinois.edu/rhetoric

UIUC Library Rhetoric

Website

 With group, find at least one credible scholarly source

and two credible popular sources on one of the following
topics. Write down each source, as well as a brief
explanation of why you think the source is scholarly or
popular.
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
Donald Trumps candidacy
Mars colonization

Exercise