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Types of Materials/Sources
Research Tools
Ways to Read
Rhetoric
Pre-Writing Strategies
100

direct, original, firsthand sources, text or data (data sets, statistics, letters, novels, speeches, photographs, etc.)

What is a primary material?
100

more specific and far reaching than general internet search engines and identify more scholarly research and more focused results; you can specify date range

What is a research database?
100

scanning or browsing; gets main points, to save time

What is shallow reading?
100
when the writer establishes credibility
What is ethos?
100
using a number and/or alphabetic system to briefly summarize, in order, the major and minor aspects of a topic
What is outlining?
200

written about a particular question or idea; interpret, comment on, describe, or develop theories related to a topic

What is a secondary material?
200

online resource documents created as a supplement for a particular course that help undergraduates conduct research in particular topics

What is a library guide?
200

active reading; analyzing; searching for information

What is in-depth reading?
200
when the writer conveys emotions
What is pathos?
200
writers complete a directed quick write for five or ten minutes, then re-read it and identify one key term that then becomes the starting point for another iteration of directed quick writing
What is looping?
300

appear online or in print; written by scholars, members of general public, or professional writers; limited documentation; geared towards general public

What is a popular secondary source?
300
a karge umbrella concept referring to a variety of strategies, approaches, and study designs for collecting data the researchers across disciplines enact
What is data collection?
300
marginal note taking for a text
What is annotating?
300
when the writer conveys to a sense of logic
What is logos?
300
when a writer spends 2-3 minutes talking about their writing project with another person, or talking into recording device
What is directed talking?
400

appear online or in print; written by academics; published by university presses or scholarly organizations; extensive citations and footnotes; geared toward postsecondary readers; formal peer review process

What is a scholarly secondary source?
400
a list of relevant sources on a particular topic with brief summaries or descriptions
What is an annotated bibliography?
400

readers approaching a text by thinking about how and why the text is attempting to persuade

What is reading rhetorically?
400
when a writer establishes a timeline
What is kairos?
400
a form of brainstorming that includes more of an explicit capacity for building relationships and connections among ideas
What is concept mapping?
500

reference works about a certain area of research (encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes)

What are tertiary materials?
500

an evaluative report of information found in the literature related to your selected area of study

What is a literature review?
500
conducting in-depth reading strategies on the writing choices themselves as made by the author
What is reading like a writer?
500
enables readers to understand more about how and why an argument emerged 
What is the rhetorical triangle?
500
when writers chose an amount of time and then generate as many ideas as possible abut a topic as quickly as possible, using short phrases or words
What is brainstorming?