Summary Ch1

The Bedford Researcher seems like a great tool to use if one needed help or direction towards writing a research paper. Not only does it explain how, but it uses specific helpful steps and starts from the beginning. Chapter 1 of the Bedford Researcher is all about getting started and how to grasp and understand the research writing process and learning how to work with sources. The main focus and overall idea is how to grasp the readers attention. Although not everyone will be interested in the topic that the author might be delving into, but you want to attract a certain type of people while also making others curious enough to continue reading. But before grasping others attention, the researcher must first understand what he writing about, and to understand the topic in it's entirety. A great way of getting started is simply brainstorming and using techniques such as freewriting, looping, and clustering.