The recommended handbook for WRT 105 and WRT 205 is Rebecca Moore Howard’s Writing Matters.
Additional resources for students:
Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Reading Strategies
Parks, Stephen. “Reading Strategies and Intellectual Communities.” Writing Communities: A Text with Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017. 3-19. [pdf]
Critical Reading Activities (Florida State University): http://wr.english.fsu.edu/College-Composition/The-Inkwell/Critical-Reading-Activities
Rosenberg, Karen. “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, a peer-reviewed open textbook series for the writing classroom.
http://writingspaces.org/essays
Developing Research Questions
Marshall, Margaret J. Except from Chapter 1 on Posing Questions. Composing inquiry: methods and readings for investigation and writing. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. [pdf]
Takayoshi, Pamela, Elizabeth Tomlinson, and Jennifer Castillo. “The Construction of Research Problems and Methods.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. Ed. Katrina M. Powell and Pamela Takayoshi. Hampton Press, 2012. 93-117. [pdf]
Evaluating Sources
Cornell Source Evaluation: https://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/tutorial/dpl3221.html
Davies, William. “How Statistics Lost Their Power—And Why We Should Fear What Comes Next. The Guardian. 19 January 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracyFleitz, Elizabeth. “Teaching Digital Rhetoric in the Age of Fake News: Media Literacy and Source Evaluation in the First-Year Writing Classroom.” 15 March 2007:
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2017/03/15/teaching-digital-rhetoric-in-the-age-of-fake-news-media-literacy-and-source-evaluation-in-the-first-year-writing-classroom/
Georgetown Evaluating Sources: https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
Purdue OWL, Evaluating Sources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
Primary Research
“Introduction to Primary Research” from Gaillet, Lynee Lewis, and Michelle F. Eble. Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces. New York: Routledge, 2016. 3-9. [pdf]
Marshall, Margaret J. Excerpt from Chapter 3 on Observing. Composing inquiry: methods and readings for investigation and writing. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. [pdf]
Marshall, Margaret J. Excerpt from Chapter 4 on Interviewing. Composing inquiry: methods and readings for investigation and writing. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. [pdf]
Overview of Primary Research Strategies and Initial Steps (from Alex Hansen) [pdf]
Guide for Conducting Interviews. [pdf]
Using Sources Effectively
Using Sources (Hamilton College): [pdf]
Using Sources Effectively (Calgary College): [pdf]
Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 19 June 2017,www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds.
Integrating Quotes: Citing Sources Effectively in Academic Papers (Dennis Jerz)
https://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/integrating-quotes-citing-sources-effectively-in-academic-papers/