TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rienecker,Lotte
AU  - Jørgensen,Peter Stray
AU  - Skov,Signe
TI  - The Good Paper: A Handbook for Writing Papers in Higher Education
SN  - 9788759321676
AV  - LB2369 -- .R55 2015eb 
U1  - 808.06 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Frederiksberg
PB  - Samfundslitteratur
KW  - Dissertations, Academic--Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Good Paper - A handbook for writing papers in higher education -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the English version -- Use -- Foundation and background -- Research papers, BA theses and essays -- Examples from good papers from professional bachelor and master programmes -- Collaboration with research libraries -- Activity book -- Contact the authors -- Reading Guide -- 1. Good Papers in Higher Education - Genres and Quality Criteria -- The research paper as a genre -- The research genre investigates a subject-specific problem -- The research paper meets scientific and scholarly requirements -- Research means bringing factors into play -- The research text is hierarchical -- Research is both the knowledge and the inquiry of the field -- Academic speech acts -- Requirements and qualities of the good paper in higher education -- Avoid common misconceptions of what constitutes a good paper -- Other types of papers and genres you will have to write as a student -- Other types of papers: Popularising papers, practice papers, tests -- The foundation of your research - the paper's pentagon -- What can be included in the pentagon's corners? -- Examples of good papers in the pentagon model -- Use the pentagon -- The good paper's quality criteria -- A teacher's comments on a paper -- Rhetoric of science -- 1. In the good paper, the writer is professional and displays independence -- Independence -- 2. The good paper uses the field's knowledge and tools -- Knowledge production -- 3. The good paper is focused -- 4. The good paper is "written" on the top of the taxonomies of educational objectives. -- 5. The good paper is an argument -- 6. The good paper is critical of its own material, its field and of itself -- 7. The good paper communicates on a meta level -- 8. The good paper meets the curriculum's parameters -- Read your curriculum; Examples of qualities in bachelor theses -- Nuances? -- The different purposes and ideals of the Anglo-American and Continental research traditions -- Advice to students writing in the Continental tradition -- 2. Writing Processes of Research Papers -- Choice of topic -- Your interest in the topic -- The useful topic -- The good topic -- Theoretical, abstract or concrete topics? -- After choosing a topic, the first thing you should do is write -- You have started writing, yes, but what? -- Write before and while you read -- Write backwards - start with the conclusion -- Begin with the central aspects -- Put off in depth studies of theory and history, summaries and descriptions -- Be flexible when writing -- Introductory writing is writing to think -- The techniques of writing to think -- Brainstorming -- Mind mapping -- Non-stop writing -- Broad writing -- Display (visual representations) i.e. drawing the central content of your paper -- Why write to think? -- From writing to think to drafts to finished papers -- Writing with or without an outline -- The texts of the writing process: Notes, drafts and finished text -- Should you write with a reader in mind? -- Revising a text -- Take a break -- Revise on paper -- Criteria for revision -- From writer based to reader oriented revision -- Get feedback -- Know your supervisor's criteria -- The process of project planning -- Your (pre)conditions -- Use calendars and schedules -- Plan backwards from your deadline -- Logbook -- Reading for papers -- Experiment! -- 3. Smaller homework assignments, one-week assignments, set exams - essays -- What is the purpose of essays in the first year of study? -- Quality criteria -- Restrictions and possibilities: What are you required to do and what would be wise to do? -- Progression and independence -- If you are set an assignment question; Introducing your paper: What should you include? -- Structure and presentation -- The writing process - if you only have six hours, three days or a week -- 4. Formulating a Research Question: From Topic to Focus and Question -- Definitions: "Problem" and other problem related words -- Other words for research question -- Must there be an actual problem (and for whom) to write a research paper? -- How do you formulate a research question? -- Research questions in "hard" and "soft" disciplines -- A question? -- A good research question helps you to write the good paper -- The process: From topic to research question -- How to move from topic to research question -- Formulate your research question on the basis of the answer -- An observation -- Use wh-words -- Fill out a template -- Be inspired -- 1. The research questions guides the paper's pentagon -- 2. Formulate a research question that is knowledge-transforming according to the taxonomies for learning goals -- What-, why- or how-questions -- What -- Why -- Commentary -- How -- 3. The research question governs the paper as an argument -- 4. The research question's broadness vs. narrowness -- The research question guides the paper's delimitation -- 5. The research question's main question must be apparent -- Divide into main question and necessary working questions -- 6. The research question must be precise -- Vagueness -- Watch out for plural terms and broad concepts -- Watch out for the absence of actors and sources -- Using the words and terms of the field -- Write a short research question with clear layout -- 7. Consciously use open/closed questions in the research question -- What is a poor research question? -- Supervision and formulating research questions -- Keep you supervisor informed -- Get input from your supervisor and fellow students/others -- A good research question is no guarantee; Unanswered questions and unfinished research questions -- 5. Literature and Information Search for Your Paper -- Basic knowledge of searching for and handling information -- The parameters of literature searches for papers -- How much literature should you read? -- Time frame for the literature search -- Too broad for a narrow search - before and after formulating your research question -- Preliminary searches and reading -- Your paper's relationship to the literature on the topic -- Literature and information searches on the basis of a (filled out) pentagon -- Are there "literature gaps" in the pentagon? -- Planning your literature search -- How to search for literature - search methods -- Chain search -- Systematic literature search -- Random literature search -- Articles and other material -- Too much and not enough literature -- Too much literature - specify your search terms -- If there is no literature? -- Is it okay to pretend that some literature does not exist? -- Search terms for literature searches for papers -- Documenting your literature and information search -- Check you literature search -- Evaluating literature - source criticism -- Your supervisor and literature and information searches -- Resources for literature and information searches -- Courses at research and university libraries -- Web tutorials -- Contact the information specialist -- Web resources -- What is Google Scholar? -- Features of Google Scholar -- How are articles ranked? -- 6. Reading and Taking Notes for Your Paper -- Curricular reading and reading for your paper require different reading and note-taking strategies -- Reading and writing go hand in hand -- Reading for papers -- Ways of reading -- Skimming - reading to gain an overview of the topic -- Selective reading - goal-oriented reading for writing papers -- A concluding remark on reading; Taking notes for your paper -- Notes for the paper: Files -- How should you store notes? -- Highlighting and referential notes -- Processed notes -- Notes for contextualising -- 7. Sources in Your Paper -- Sources' functions in and for the paper -- Applied sources -- The professionalism and scholarliness of sources -- Why use secondary sources? -- Using secondary sources in papers - which and how -- How many sources? -- Which parts of a source can you use? -- The research question as a guiding principle and benchmark for handling sources -- Where are different sources placed in the pentagon? -- When and how should you refer to secondary sources in your text? -- Source qualification, source argumentation, source discussion and source criticism -- Your use of sources in your paper -- Qualify secondary sources -- Source argumentation -- Discussing sources -- Source criticism -- How should you represent sources? -- Quotes -- Quotation technique -- Paraphrasing and summarising -- How to reference sources -- Which sources must be referenced? -- Distance to sources -- Contagion and plagiarism -- References -- Be consistent -- Referencing books -- Referencing journals -- Referencing articles in books or journals -- Internet source -- Brochures etc. -- Other material -- If information is missing -- Other sources -- Other resources on using sources and referencing -- 8. Data in the paper -- Qualitative and quantitative data -- Before choosing data: Research question and supervisor -- Always prepare collection carefully -- Presenting data in your paper's introduction -- Including data as documentation in your paper -- Data can be discussed in sections on method criticism, discussion and conclusion -- Collecting and using human data -- References -- 9. Theory, concepts, methods and research design (= the method of your research) -- Theories in your paper; Concepts are often drawn from theories
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