1st Edition
Writing with Research A Practical Guide
Preface
Introduction: Naming the Task: Our Approach to Writing with Research
Part One. Putting Writing into Research and Research into Writing
Chapter 1. Trusting Your Starting Point
Chapter 2. Notetaking Is Writing
Chapter 3. Composing in Chunks
Chapter 4. Coming and Going from Writing and Researching
Chapter 5. Managing Your Composing Style and Charting Your Direction
Chapter 6. Revising and Releasing
Part Two. Researching for Writing
Chapter 7. Defining Research
Chapter 8. Gathering Your Tools
Chapter 9. Finding Trusted Sources
Chapter 10. Using Trusted Sources
Chapter 11. Making New Knowledge
Chapter 12. Shaping Your Argument
Chapter 13. Finding Your Voice through Writing and Researching
Part Three. Building Research-Friendly Writing Habits
Chapter 14. Making Time
Chapter 15. Planning Writing and Researching Sessions
Chapter 16. Noodling: Using Really Small Chunks of Time
Chapter 17. Getting Stuck and Unstuck
Chapter 18. Unmasking Psychological Resistance
Chapter 19. Resistance Is a Signal
Part Four. Finishing and Starting Again
Chapter 20. Revising and Editing for Final Release
Chapter 21. Pushing to the Finish Line
Chapter 22. Lying Fallow
Chapter 23. Juggling More Than One Project at a Time
Chapter 24. Writing and Researching Collaboratively
Chapter 25. Finding Writing and Researching Companions
Appendix. Further Resources
Index
Biography
Kristen B. Neuschel is Professor of History emerita and former Director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, USA. Her publications include Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–1600 (2020).
Ann Marie Rasmussen is Professor of German emerita at Duke University, USA. Her book Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds (2021) was awarded Honorable Mention by the 2022 German Studies Association/DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service) Book Prize committee.
"No matter where you are in your nonfiction journey, you will think and work differently after reading this book. It captures the gestalt of our enterprise with empathy, insight, and a raft of sound advice."
Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of Colorado Boulder
“Equally inspiring for students and professors, Writing With Research covers every aspect of research-based writing. Neuschel and Rasmussen shine in their discussion of note-taking as a fundamental part of the writing process, and offer invaluable tips on how to find time to write in impossibly busy times.”
Toril Moi, Duke University
“An excellent guide for helping writers do what they need to do: write. Writing is thinking. This book helps established and aspiring writers break free from the linear-model of writing we so often slip into and instead embrace the creative, dynamic process of writing as thinking.”
Professor G. Mitchell Reyes, Lewis & Clark College, USA, author of Global Memoryscapes and The Evolution of Mathematics
