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CCS Junior tHESIS

The Use of Sources: Where do you get an answer for your question?. CCS Junior tHESIS. Review . . . Why do research?. Some components. Language exists to transfer meaning from one person to another The purpose of transferring meaning is to support relationship – it is to PEOPLE that we speak

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CCS Junior tHESIS

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  1. The Use of Sources: Where do you get an answer for your question? CCS Junior tHESIS

  2. Review . . . Why do research?

  3. Some components Language exists to transfer meaning from one person to another The purpose of transferring meaning is to support relationship – it is to PEOPLE that we speak In doing research, we must have answers to a few questions: Why do research? Why write it up? Who are you researching for? You or another? What do you want to research? (Topic) What do you want to know about your topic? (Research Question) What do want to say about your topic? (Thesis) What should be considered about your audience in your communication? (Relationship)

  4. Why do research? Research is gathering the information you need to answer a question to help you solve a problem. (Booth, Wayne. The Craft of Research. 1995) What might you research? Some possible opportunities for research: What time and where a movie plays Where a lost wallet is How to observe a meteor shower What kind of car to buy How to learn to play “Stairway to Heaven” on the guitar What Melville’s Moby Dick is really about Whether or not the pericope de adultera should be in the Bible Preparing a sermon on 1 Peter 4:7-11

  5. WHO ARE YOU RESEARCHING FOR? It’s always about relationships . . .

  6. Consider your audience If the goal of language is to transfer meaning from one person to another, then the proof that the work has been effectual is whether or not they have received the meaning. What could get in the way of that? Some things that could get in the way: Language Knowledge base Age group Biases Interest Writing/Speaking style Skills of communicator

  7. Now . . . fetch! Once you have a Topic Once you have a Question Now, you need a resource Then you research until . . . You know the answer to your question And have something to say – this is your thesis The Thesis will be the Central point in every communication; itsmajor claim; its main point.

  8. The art and use of good sources Says who?

  9. Why do we think before listening?

  10. Sources • Good • Experts • Field Focus • Bibliographies in subject books • Local Scholars • Bad • Opinion polls • Wikipedia

  11. Things to consider • Author • Education • Post • Writings • Publisher • Commonality • Genre/subject willingness • Date

  12. Be discerning . . .

  13. The Use of Sources: Where do you get an answer for your question? CCS Junior tHESIS

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