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Comp Notes is a podcast for college students in first-year writing courses. We'll cover the concepts you'll discuss in class, giving you a chance to reinforce or grow your understanding of them.
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Research: An Overview
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Mark Sutton
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This episode begins a series on research. It talks about what research is and shares strategies for choosing a research focus.
Additional Materials
- College Composition and Communication's "Research (poster)"
- Purdue OWL's "Research: Where to Begin"
- Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse's "Developing a Research Question"
- Emilie Zickel's "Developing a Research Question"
- "Narrowing a Topic," "Regular vs. Research Questions," and "Developing Your Research Question" from Choosing Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
- Bonus: Dana Lynn Driscoll's "Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews"
- This essay discusses other forms of research not discussed in the episode.
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