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Summary: This site defines research strategy as a plan of action that gives direction to your efforts, enabling you to conduct research systematically rather than haphazardly. After the author defined research strategy, she went on to describe the steps involved with research strategy. A couple of the steps were to choose and define your topic and get background information. After each step she would explain it and give advice on the best way to do the step. The description of research strategy was extremely thorough, giving examples of each step and making the information clear and easy to read. How is it useful? This site gave a very good explanation of research strategy. Everything on the site was easy to find and clearly explained. The site touched every topic concerning research strategy and gave me an understanding on how to use it. Why is it useful? The organization of the site made it useful. I found the information I needed fast and now have a good understanding of research strategies. The amount of information this site contains also made it useful. Every topic concerning research strategy was explained in depth. How is it credible? The website has an .edu address meaning it's for education. A site intended for education must contain valid information. Why is it credible? The site was made by The University of North Carolina Asheville meaning it was written by a highly educated individual and intended for education. Citation: Ferguson Janet (2005). Developing a Library Research Strategy. Retrieved on November 7, 2009 from http://www.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/resstrat.html.

Research Strategies Summary This website is very helpful with research strategies. It talks about what research means. Research is about finding ideas and adding your own input. It is about finding information that helps you with your topic. It is important to get into focus and understand that there are strategies you can use for research. How/why helpful This website is very helpful because it describes how to effectively research to complete a term paper. It has everything organized and it is easy to navigate the site. How/why credible This website is credible because it is a .edu website. It has a lot of information and it provides graphs to better understand the material. It is also credible because it advises against copying and pasting. Citation Araby Greene. (Fall 1998, updated 22 April 2002). Library Research Strategy. In, Developing a Library Research Strategy. Retrieved November 5, 2009, from, http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/lr101/greene/res_strat.html.

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This website states that not only should research of your paper start in the library or internet, but it should start in your mind, of the subject you want to do, and what about the subject you want to learn about. Once you find out what you want to research you start in the library and find out as much as you can about your subject. This website broke down the research in easy ways that everyone can learn, you have different links with information and examples on them. It was very resourceful in the way of all the examples, and data that was shown on this website. It makes research easy, and well thought out. This website was very credible. It is a educational webside. http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/RLC/research.html

After reading this article, I was able to gain some insight as to how the process should flow when acquiring research strategies. It covered various topics and laid the whole process out in a linear fashon so you knew where you were to start ,and how it should look when you are completed. " How to Write an A+ Research Paper" (nd) Retrieved from a Research Guide @www.aresearchguide.com

Summary: The site I found was written by a college student. He showed the steps he takes when editing a paper and thought it might be useful to share the information. Editing is one of the most tedious jobs in the writing process. The author explained that the first step of the editing process is to take a break. He said to give it at least a day, to let your mind fully cool down from writing the paper. He then said that editing should be done sentence by sentence, saying each one aloud to make sure it sounds right. The site was in paragraph form making the information a little more time consuming to find. How is it useful? The student described the steps in a way that made it to easy to understand and remember. Editing is a long process that should be done by more than one person, and should be done in a quiet static free area. The site helped me gain a better understanding on how to do editing and get the most out of it. Why is it useful? The information is extremely easy to read and digest what the author is saying. One of the points he gave was to keep a thesaurus handy. If you're reading a paragraph and it sounds like you keep repeating the same word over and over again, you could use a thesaurus and make it sound fresh. This was a very useful tip in the editing process. How is it credible? The site has a lot of information for educational purposes. Each article has a space for feedback and the article I used had no negative feedback. This was just a college student trying to help other students. Why is it credible? If the article contained false information it would have been removed from the site by now, the posting is over three years old. It has also had over three hundred thousand views, if there was false information someone would have said something by now. Citation: Rein Daniel (2006). Tips and Strategies for Editing a Research Paper. Retrieved on November 8, 2009 from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/95133/tips_and_strategies_for_editing

Summary: This site is a teaching tool helping to define the complex rhetorical situation. The site included actual text from Lloyd Bitzer's book The Rhetorical Situation. It used this text to help describe the term exigency. It said that exigency is a hard thing to define in some rhetorical situations. It gave an example of stem cell research. You can see the good that we could possibly find the cure for some diseases, but an innocent human life must be sacrificed in order to do this. Exigency is not always a clearly defined component of the rhetorical situation. How is it useful? The text defined exigency in a rhetorical situation. The author of the site defined exigency as, "exigency is something that happens which gives rise to a need for communication." This proves that exigency is the motivation for the beginning of a rhetorical situation. Why is it useful? This site was useful because it defined the term exigency and gave examples on how you can find it in everyday situations. The author of this site also used text from Lloyd Bitzer's book The Rhetorical Situation to help further define exigency in the rhetorical situation. How is it credible? On the webpage the author citied the work he took from Lloyd Bitzer's book. If this was a fake site, the author probably wouldn't have gone through the trouble of citing his work. The website also had a very professional appearance. Why is it credible? The author seems like a very educated man. He backs up all of his definitions with text from Lloyd Bitzer's book. He also provided links in his site to find more information on the rhetorical situation. Obviously the author put a lot of time and effort into the site making it a very useful tool. Citation: Buchanan, C. (2004). The Rhetorical Situation: Beginning Well. Retrieved November 1, 2009, from http://people.emich.edu/cbuchanan/rhetoric/beginningwell.html \n

Summary: The site I found teaches you the context of a rhetorical situation. Context is the surroundings that will influence the rhetorical situation. The site also defined rhetorical situation itself and the other components of the rhetorical situation. The site was in a very easy to use format, mimicking the pages of a book. It was a very organized site helping find information quickly and easily. How is it useful? The site was useful because of its clear definition on the term context. It defined context through examples. One example was you have to give a speech and the speech was set to happen right after lunch. There is a good chance that people coming back from lunch will be a little sleepy. The context of this situation is that the speech was held after lunch, thus affecting your speech. Knowing this, you could combat it by asking the audience questions or doing an exercise where they have to stand up and move around. Why was it useful? Using examples to define a term is a very effective strategy. Before reading the article I was a little shady on the role of context in the rhetorical situation, but the use of examples has helped my understanding. The organization of this site was also a useful tool. The site is very well laid out and each subject has a clear bold heading. There are also many examples used in the site. It doesn't just use one; it uses many examples each containing a different form of context. How is it credible? The information on the site is an excerpt from a book. It contains information on how to cite it and it contains a page that outlines the usage rights. I researched the book and I could not find an author. I think the book is a co-written project that involves many different people. The book could also still be under construction. At the end of each page there are citations containing many different names. I think these citations are where information was pulled from to create the information above. Why is it credible? The sit

Prewriting Strategies Summary- This website has all the elements necessary to understand the prewriting process. It provides many useful links that define the all the steps that make up the prewriting process. The strategies that are provided in the website are unconscious strategies, conscious strategies, and strategies for productive reading and research. How/why useful- This website is very useful because everything is organized. It provides links for all the steps mentioned which then describe in much detail the topic that was selected. It doesn't just have a list of links; it gives a brief description of the topic to give you an idea about what the link will be talking about. How/why credible- This website is credible because it is a website for York University. It has many useful links and provides lots of graphic aids. It also provides a side bar that covers all of the information related to the prewriting process. Citation- York University. (March 10, 2009). http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/prewriting/. In Pre-Writing Strategies. Retrieved November 1, 2009, from http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/prewriting/.

Peer Editing\nSummary\nThis website talks about how to effectively edit a persons essay or work. It talks about how important it is peer edit, because it teaches a person to criticize, which helps when correcting your own paper. It also describes how Peer editing is when a peer rvises a draft of the essay and looks for things that might be out of place. Some examples are punctuation, spelling, and complete sentences. It also provides a checklist that you can use to effectively edit a paper.\nHow/why useful\nThis is a useful website because it takes the time to explain what peer editing is. It also helps as a reference for those who know what it is. It is also helpful because it provides a list of things to look for so that you can correctly peer edit a paper.\nHow/why credible\nI believe this website is credible because it also provides help for many other things such as admission essays, term papers, research papers and book reports. The website fully describes what peer editing means. \n

Summary: The site I found is a power point that lists all of the components of the rhetorical situation and defines them. Audience was clearly defined and the author gave examples on how to write to a specific audience. The author said that an audience is needed when writing on the rhetorical situation. Without an audience the writing will lack purpose and therefore not do anybody any good.\nHow is it useful? The site was very useful and helped me gain a better understanding on the audience's role in the rhetorical situation. The author asked questions that the writer should consider when writing to an audience. The author would ask a question like "To whom am I writing?" then answer it with description on the different kinds of audiences you can have. The author also informed that you need to research your audience; you need to know specific information so that you can write something that will interest them. \nWhy is it useful? The site was a very easy to read document. It made finding answers quick and easy. Everything is organized and the information is well explained and backed up with examples. If I were writing a paper on rhetorical situation I would use this site. I found what I was looking for in a matter of seconds and found a lot of information on the subject in question.\nHow is it credible? The information in the site was written by Alisa Cooper from South Mountain Community College. The site was probably used as a study guide for her students. It would not be a very good study guide if the information was false. The website is also a .edu meaning it's for education purposes.\nWhy is it credible? The information in the site was taken from a book called Reasoning and Writing Well 3rd Edition. If the teacher drew her information from this book the information must be accurate. Every page of the document has her name on it, the schools name and the date it was published. Citation: Cooper Alisa (2004) Rhetorical Situation: Reasoning and Writing Well 3rd E

The reason that I chose this webpage is because the way the information was presented. It gives a clear cut process as well as various pointers as to how to properly draft a paper. I find that i am a person who learns by examples, and this listing cites multiple examples. The author of this particular article is unknown but it has been generated from a reputable learning center. I found it on Nov. 9 by surfing the web.

Summary: The site I found is a power point that lists all of the components of the rhetorical situation and defines them. Audience was clearly defined and the author gave examples on how to write to a specific audience. The author said that an audience is needed when writing on the rhetorical situation. Without an audience the writing will lack purpose and therefore not do anybody any good. How is it useful? The site was very useful and helped me gain a better understanding on the audience's role in the rhetorical situation. The site had good examples educating on how to write to a specific audience. The author asked questions that the writer should consider when writing to an audience. The author would ask the question and then briefly describe the question in further detail. The author would ask a question like "To whom am I writing?" then answer it with description on the different kinds of audiences you can have. The author also informed that you need to research your audience; you need to know specific information so that you can write something that will interest them. Why is it useful? The site was a very easy to read document. It made finding answers quick and easy. Everything is organized and the information is well explained and backed up with examples. If I were writing a paper on rhetorical situation I would use this site. I found what I was looking for in a matter of seconds and found a lot of information on the subject in question. How is it credible? The information in the site was written by Alisa Cooper from South Mountain Community College. The site was probably used as a study guide for her students. It would not be a very good study guide if the information was false. The website is also a .edu meaning it's for education purposes. Why is it credible? The information in the site was taken from a book called Reasoning and Writing Well 3rd Edition. If the teacher drew her information from this book the information must be accurate. Eve

The goal is the purpose, motive, or reason for writing. there are two basic types of goals, general, or specific. I found this site useful it helper a lot in helping me understand goal. This is credible it is from South Mountain Community College.