Chapter 3
Narrowing down a subject
What is a topic?
The three kinds of sources
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary sources?
Academic researchers usually pose not practical problems, but ...
What is conceptual problems?
What you build arguments on
What is evidence?
The third president of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson
A website used to find primary sources that is not a primary source
What is Wikipedia?
Is it not what you call your sources, but...
What is how you use them?
You make a claim more specific through
If readers don't believe your evidence
What is rejecting your reasons and claim?
The number of eyes a spider has
What is eight?
A topic is probably too broad if...
What is can state it in four or five words?
The most reliable sources can be found in
What is library catalogs and databases?
A claim built from a chain of conceptual claims
What is a practical claim?
A chart-like outline to structure your argument
What is storyboard?
The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest
What is a sloth?
The best way to work on your focused topic
What is formulating questions?
When someone reviews a book or article before publication
What is peer review?
The 4 classes that concern conceptual claims
What is fact, definition, cause, and value?
To count as evidence, a statement must report something that...
What is readers agree not to question?
The only permanent feature on a comet is this central part, also part of an atom
What is a nucleus?
What you shouldn't do with a topic
What is narrowing down the topic too much?
You must evaluate your source for...
What is relevance and reliability?
If this claim seems false then readers will think your original claim is not worth argument
What is the reverse of a claim?
If data was collected by others and you want to cite it
What is citing the source as close to the evidence as you can get?
It can mean to drain of energy or the gases that escape from an engine
What is exhaust?