Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, 5th Edition

Badke, William

ISBN 10: 1491722339 / ISBN 13: 9781491722336

Published by iUniverse (edition 5th ed.), 2014

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, 5th Edition
• Publisher: iUniverse (edition 5th ed.)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491722339
• ISBN 13: 9781491722336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 5th ed.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Online resources have given us access to more knowledge than ever before. We're buried in data, and defining what is and what is not genuine information becomes more of a challenge all the time. In this fifth edition of Research Strategies, author William Badke helps you make sense of all of the available information, shows you how to navigate and discern it, and details how to use it to your advantage to become a better researcher. Badke focuses on informational research and provides a host of tips and advice not only for conducting research, but also for everything from finding a topic to writing an outline to documenting resources and polishing the final draft. Study guides, practice exercises, and assignments at the end of each chapter help reinforce each lesson. An experienced research instructor who has led thousands of students to become better researchers, Badke uses humor to help you gain a better understanding of today's complex, technological world. Research Strategies provides the skills and strategies to efficiently and effectively complete a research project from topic to finished product. It shows how research can be exciting and even fun.

About the Author

William Badke is associate librarian for Associated Canadian Theological Schools and Information Literacy at Trinity Western University, British Columbia Canada. Since the mid-1980s, he has been teaching students the joy of research done well. His book, Research Strategies, now in its fifth edition, is a leading resource for courses in informational research.