false 89419 0 0 155994 0226065685 9780226065687 12 <![CDATA[The Craft of Research, 2nd edition]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261179m/155994.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261179s/155994.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155994.The_Craft_of_Research_2nd_edition 3.61 82 The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.

The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold

]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 59736 3.90 269 54 1995 436108 0226065588 9780226065588 6 <![CDATA[The Rhetoric of Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174760112m/436108.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174760112s/436108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436108.The_Rhetoric_of_Fiction 3.82 67 The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon.

For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."</div>]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 1000 1420428 0520062108 9780520062108 2 <![CDATA[The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223627093m/1420428.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223627093s/1420428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420428.The_Company_We_Keep_An_Ethics_of_Fiction 3.94 17 89419 3.75 263 41 1989 154641 1405112379 9781405112376 0 <![CDATA[The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172256582m/154641.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172256582s/154641.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154641.The_Rhetoric_of_Rhetoric_The_Quest_for_Effective_Communication 4.00 10 89419 3.75 263 41 2004 155997 0874216311 9780874216318 1 <![CDATA[My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261193m/155997.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261193s/155997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155997.My_Many_Selves_The_Quest_for_a_Plausible_Harmony 3.25 4 My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes part of a quest to harmonize the diverse, often conflicting aspects of who he was. To see himself clearly and whole, he broke the self down, personified the fragments, uncovered their roots in his experience and background, and engaged those selves and experiences in dialogue. Basic to his story and to its lifelong concern with ethics and rhetoric was his Mormon youth in rural Utah. In adulthood he struggled with that background, abandoning most Mormon doctrines, but he retained the identity, ethical questions, and concern with communication that this upbringing gave him.
The uncommon wisdom and careful attention that empower Wayne Booth's many other books cause My Many Selves to transcend its genre, as the best memoirs always do. The book becomes a window through which we who read it will see our own conflicts, our own ongoing struggle to live honestly and ethically in the world.
Wayne Booth died in October 2005, soon after completing work on this autobiography.
]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 2006 155991 0226065790 9780226065793 0 <![CDATA[Now Don't Try to Reason With Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155991.Now_Don_t_Try_to_Reason_With_Me_Essays_and_Ironies_for_a_Credulous_Age 4.00 3 Now Don’t Try to Reason with Me still resounds with anyone struggling for consensus in a world of us versus them. 

“Professor Booth’s earnestness is graced by wit, irony, and generous humor.”—Louis Coxe, New Republic

</DIV>]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 1970 498291 0226065863 9780226065861 1 <![CDATA[For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175265018m/498291.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175265018s/498291.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498291.For_the_Love_of_It_Amateuring_and_Its_Rivals 3.67 3 For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it.
</div>]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 1999 600904 0226065537 9780226065533 0 <![CDATA[A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662314m/600904.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662314s/600904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/600904.A_Rhetoric_of_Irony 3.33 3
In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period.

Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores—with the help of Plato—the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.
</div>]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 1974 4027683 8822117999 0 <![CDATA[Retorica della narrativa]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4027683.Retorica_della_narrativa 3.00 1 89419 3.75 263 41 2000 1420429 0226065820 9780226065823 0 <![CDATA[The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183458605m/1420429.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183458605s/1420429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420429.The_Vocation_of_a_Teacher_Rhetorical_Occasions_1967_1988 3.00 1 of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of
liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account
of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political
and economic scandals that frustrate even the most dedicated educators.

"[Booth] is unusually adept at addressing a wide variety of
audiences. From deep in the heart of this academic jungle, he shows a
clear eye and a firm step."—Alison Friesinger Hill, New York Times
Book Review

"A cause for celebration. . . . What an uncommon man is Wayne
Booth. What an uncommon book he has provided for our reflection."
—James Squire, Educational Leadership

"This book stands as a vigorous reminder of the traditional
virtues of the scholar-teacher."—Brian Cox, Times Literary
Supplement</div>]]> 89419 3.75 263 41 1991