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The Bedford Researcher
Seventh Edition| ©2021 Mike Palmquist
The conversations we are encouraging our students to join and the challenges they face have never been more complex. The Bedford Researcher gives them the tools to confront that complexity with thoughtfulness, integrity, and an understanding of the value and power of their own voices.&nb...
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The conversations we are encouraging our students to join and the challenges they face have never been more complex. The Bedford Researcher gives them the tools to confront that complexity with thoughtfulness, integrity, and an understanding of the value and power of their own voices. Written to help students strengthen their ability to understand, assess, and contribute to ongoing conversations about important issues, the seventh edition embraces a renewed focus on critical thinking and a more comprehensive and efficient approach to assessing and evaluating sources, empowering today’s students to engage effectively with the challenging issues of our times.
Now available with Achieve for The Bedford Researcher, an online course space featuring the full e-book, writing tools with pre-built assignments across several drafts, peer review, customizable rubrics, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing.
Features
Complete coverage of the research writing process
- Part 1, Joining the Conversation, introduces the concept of research writing as a social act. It helps students understand that research writing involves exploring conversations among writers and readers, narrowing their focus to a single conversation, and developing a research question to guide their inquiry.
- Part 2, Working with Sources, establishes the importance of reading critically, evaluating sources, taking notes, engaging with and managing information, and avoiding plagiarism.
- Part 3, Collecting Information, helps students search for information using digital resources, print resources, and field research methods.
- Part 4, Creating Your Document, guides students as they develop their thesis, organize their information and ideas, frame their argument, develop an outline, draft their document, integrate source material, revise and edit their drafts, and design and present their work.
- Part 5, Documenting Sources, provides comprehensive and up-to-date chapters on MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.
Engaging and useful apparatus Each chapter is structured around a set of Key Questions that enables students to find information quickly and ends with Quick Reference boxes to stress the chapter’s main points. Throughout the book, My Research Project activities, in-depth tutorials, and numerous illustrations and tables teach students how to keep their projects on track.
The design employs clear and accessible illustrations, annotations, checklists, activities, and documentation guidelines — the parts of the text students will return to as they write.
A conversational, student-friendly tone The Bedford Researcher is written in an accessible, easy-to-follow style that treats students with respect, helping them to gain confidence in their ability to write well, conduct research effectively, and think critically. Clear, relevant examples address students’ questions about research writing by concretely illustrating writing, research, and critical reading strategies.
Detailed case studies of real student researchers The work of seven real students are featured throughout the book, providing students with strong examples of research writing in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Their research writing projects -- in the form of traditional research essays, websites, and multimodal essays -- provide accessible models students can use as they conduct their own research and draft their own documents.
Help with analyzing and developing arguments Extensive coverage of argument, both as a writing strategy and as a framework for reading sources critically and actively, is included in Part 4, Creating Your Document. Here students will learn how to establish a position on an issue, how to develop a line of argument, and how to support an argument with reasons and evidence. They will also learn to identify logical fallacies and avoid them in their own writing.
Extensive and up-to-date coverage of digital sources and tools The text offers relevant, hands-on advice for searching for and evaluating audio, video, and other digital sources; searching for e-books; saving and organizing sources with personal and social bookmarking sites and web capture and curation tools; integrating images, audio, and video into multimodal documents and multimedia presentations; and revising and editing with digital tools.
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A more comprehensive and efficient approach to assessing and evaluating sources Chapter 5, Assessing and Evaluating Sources, includes a new, four-part process that asks students to consider how a source connects to the conversation they seek to join, to read laterally to gain a sense of how other writers view the source, to read closely to evaluate a source, and to engage in rhetorical listening to determine whether a source can help them see their issue differently. The result is a thorough but easy-to-use approach to navigating sources in an era of fake news.
A greater focus on the role of critical thinking as a central part of the work of a research writer. Focusing on critical thinking both as an attitude and as a set of activities, students are introduced to a range of opportunities to engage in critical thinking as a tool for reflection, analysis, and evaluation as they consider their writing assignments, the conversations they might join, and how best to share their own stances on a particular topic.
Updated coverage of documentation systems Chapter 21, Using APA Style, has been updated to reflect the significant changes introduced to the APA documentation system. These changes introduce important changes to the handling of digital sources.
New featured student writers Discussions throughout the book are illustrated by seven featured student writers, whose brainstorming, drafting, research, and revision serve as relatable models. Three of these students are new for the seventh edition. The documents they share with readers include a new argumentative essay, a new literary essay, a new website, a new research proposal, and a new poster presentation.
"The Bedford Researcher is an excellent resource for up-to-date information and best practices in conducting academic research. It helps students understand themselves and their roles as academic readers and writers."
--Andrea Bewick, Napa Valley College
"The voice in The Bedford Researcher is excellent and engaging for beginning writers."
--Dr. Gary Leising, Utica College
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Table of Contents
PREFACE FOR INSTRUCTORS
INTRODUCTION FOR WRITERS
I Joining the Conversation
1 Getting Started
2 Exploring and Focusing
3 Developing Your Research Question
II Working with Sources
4 Reading Critically and Actively
5 Assessing and Evaluating Sources
6 Taking Notes
7 Engaging with Information, Ideas, and Arguments
8 Managing Information
9 Avoiding Plagiarism
III Collecting Information
10 Searching for Information
11 Collecting Information with Field Research
IV Creating Your Document
12 Developing Your Thesis Statement
13 Developing and Organizing Your Argument
14 Drafting
15 Using Sources Effectively
16 Designing Documents
17 Revising and Editing
18 Presenting Your Work
V Documenting Sources
19 Understanding Documentation Systems
20 Using MLA Style
21 Using APA Style
22 Using Chicago Style
23 Using CSE Style
INDEX
Authors

Mike Palmquist
Mike Palmquist is Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Prior to returning to his role as a faculty member in the 2020-’21 academic year, Mike served for fourteen years in various university leadership roles, including founding director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), director of CSU Online (CSU’s Division of Continuing Education), and Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing.
Mike's work has appeared in journals including College English, College Composition and Communication, ADE Bulletin, Computers and Composition, Kairos, Written Communication, Writing Program Administration, Marketing Education Review, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. Since 1992, he has coordinated the development of WAC Clearinghouse, a publishing collaborative that provides open-access to more than 125 scholarly books, several academic journals, and a wide range of instructional and professional resources.
Mike is the author of several books, including the textbooks In Conversation, Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond, The Bedford Researcher, and Designing Writing, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's. He is co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon.
Mike is a member-at-large of the executive board of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, a trustee of the University Press of Colorado, and a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He served as chair of the National Council of Teachers of English College Section Steering Committee and as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee from 2009 to 2011. He served as chair of the NCTE College Section Steering Committee Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty, whose policy statement and recommendations were endorsed by the NCTE Executive Committee and published on the NCTE website in 2010.
In 2004, Mike was the recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, awarded by Computers and Composition. In 2006, he was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator by the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. He was named a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in 2000.
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