"With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level-from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government-learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.

I. Research, researchers, and readers -- Prologue : becoming a researcher -- Thinking in print : the uses of research, public and private -- Connecting with your reader : creating a role for yourself and your readers -- II. Asking questions, finding answers -- Prologue : planning your project, an overview -- From topics to questions -- From questions to a problem -- From problems to sources -- Engaging sources -- III. Making an argument -- Prologue : assembling a research argument -- Making good arguments : an overview -- Making claims -- Assembling reasons and evidence -- Acknowledgments and responses -- Warrants -- IV. Writing your argument -- Prologue : planning again -- Planning and drafting -- Organizing your argument -- Incorporating sources -- Communicating evidence visually -- Introductions and conclusions -- Revising style : telling your story clearly -- V. Some last considerations -- The ethics of research -- A postscript for teachers.