RC 1000 Lecture 11: Research
18 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
You gather information from reliable sources to help you make decisions, support arguments, solve problems, become more informed, and a host of other reasons. This is a way of compiling information into one place. When you do research, you engage in a process of inquiry. You are being guided by questions for which you want answers. You might be doing it for fieldwork, lab experiments, and/or database searches and you"ll find information in books, articles, news reports, online databases, statistics, archives, opinion polls, family photographs, land deeds or other historical records, and other places. Research is the process of seeking answers to questions that matter to you. The most meaningful research can be a process of discovery and learning. When you research something to present to others, your purpose, audience, and the rest of your rhetorical situation will inform both the king of information you look for and the way you present your findings.
