{"id":1037,"date":"2018-05-25T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1037"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:31:13","slug":"research-types","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/research-types\/","title":{"raw":"Research Types","rendered":"Research Types"},"content":{"raw":"The opposite of a patchwork research paper\u2014a paper in which the writer sews together other people\u2019s ideas to create a single work\u2014is what we might call a \u201cnominal research paper\u201d: a paper in which secondary sources are shoehorned in, that is, used superficially because research is a requirement, not because they have been incorporated into the writer\u2019s argument. To avoid both the patchwork error and the shoehorn error, you must understand <strong>how<\/strong> you are using your research. It is therefore useful to think of research in terms of types.\r\n\r\nThink back to our project on Occupy Wall St.\u2019s Facebook page. We already have our <strong>primary source<\/strong>: the post and comments we are examining closely in the essay. We have noticed a lot of things by close reading this source, and we have come up with a potentially solid thesis and a detailed outline. Are there any kinds of <strong>external<\/strong> information that might help us make our thesis even better?\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1426\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1426 size-medium\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/> From Pixabay.[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>The opposite of a patchwork research paper\u2014a paper in which the writer sews together other people\u2019s ideas to create a single work\u2014is what we might call a \u201cnominal research paper\u201d: a paper in which secondary sources are shoehorned in, that is, used superficially because research is a requirement, not because they have been incorporated into the writer\u2019s argument. To avoid both the patchwork error and the shoehorn error, you must understand <strong>how<\/strong> you are using your research. It is therefore useful to think of research in terms of types.<\/p>\n<p>Think back to our project on Occupy Wall St.\u2019s Facebook page. We already have our <strong>primary source<\/strong>: the post and comments we are examining closely in the essay. We have noticed a lot of things by close reading this source, and we have come up with a potentially solid thesis and a detailed outline. Are there any kinds of <strong>external<\/strong> information that might help us make our thesis even better?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1426\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1426 size-medium\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-65x35.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-225x120.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920-350x186.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/question-mark-1495858_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1037","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":993,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1037\/revisions\/2313"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/993"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1037\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}