The Research Text Outline and provide keywords for the book

The research text will provide the foundation for your research paper. That is why we ask you to read it carefully, like a scholar or professional in the field. If you give all scholarly or professional texts this kind of reading, you will rapidly develop a depth of knowledgepresuming the book itself is worth careful reading. In the sciences, the research text is generally data, and the same close attention is paid to data as you are asked to do in this phase of the research sequence. The object of study may vary from one field to another, but the approachcareful observation and analysisis a consistent feature. Write a says statement for each chapter. (2-3 sentences maximum) Write a does statement for each chapter (3-5 sentences maximum). Use your Guide to Says/Does Outlines, as well as the following questions, to help you consider what the chapter is doing. Here are some questions you might consider in terms of analyzing what a chapter does: What kind of proposition/reasoning is being used: justificatory or explanatory? How does the chapters proposition relate to the books proposition? How is the chapter organized: by division (i.e., first, second, third), or by reason/refutation, chronology, spatial/numerical organizations? Does the chapter introduce a set of premises and challenge them? Introduce and explain a problem? Pose a problem and solution? Refute or extend or concede a position? Provide a literature overview (synthesis)? Use what you have learned in the first half of the semester to identify the rhetoric of reason: is the author providing reasons, evidence, refutation, concession? Sometimes the author actually subtitles these blocks of reasoning, making your job a little easier. When you have completed each chapter, write or revise, as appropriate, what you regard as the books proposition. Your understanding of the books proposition may or may not dovetail with that of the author. Finally, as you complete each chapter, make a note of its keywords. Keywords are significant words, or sometimes phrases, that capture the main ideas of the book. Librarians (as well as Google, Wikipedia, etc) use keywords to organize information. You will be using one or more of these keywords later on as the basis for your research projec. Coming up with keywords is a form of simple synthesis (dividing, defining, classifying information). As you read the chapters, be on the lookout for a section that attracts your interest. Make note of the sources that the author uses to discuss that topic, as well as any special features related to it: footnotes, maps, charts, illustrations, important acknowledgments, etc.