Kristen B. Neuschel is Professor of History emerita and former Director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, USA. Her publications include Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600 (2020).

Ann Marie Rasmussen is Professor of German emerita at Duke University, USA. Her book Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds (2021) was awarded Honorable Mention by the 2022 German Studies Association/DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service) Book Prize committee.

Preface

Introduction: Naming the Task: Our Approach to Writing with Research

Part One. Putting Writing into Research and Research into Writing

Chapter 1. Trusting Your Starting Point

Chapter 2. Notetaking Is Writing

Chapter 3. Composing in Chunks

Chapter 4. Coming and Going from Writing and Researching

Chapter 5. Managing Your Composing Style and Charting Your Direction

Chapter 6. Revising and Releasing

Part Two. Researching for Writing

Chapter 7. Defining Research

Chapter 8. Gathering Your Tools

Chapter 9. Finding Trusted Sources

Chapter 10. Using Trusted Sources

Chapter 11. Making New Knowledge

Chapter 12. Shaping Your Argument

Chapter 13. Finding Your Voice through Writing and Researching

Part Three. Building Research-Friendly Writing Habits

Chapter 14. Making Time

Chapter 15. Planning Writing and Researching Sessions

Chapter 16. Noodling: Using Really Small Chunks of Time

Chapter 17. Getting Stuck and Unstuck

Chapter 18. Unmasking Psychological Resistance

Chapter 19. Resistance Is a Signal

Part Four. Finishing and Starting Again

Chapter 20. Revising and Editing for Final Release

Chapter 21. Pushing to the Finish Line

Chapter 22. Lying Fallow

Chapter 23. Juggling More Than One Project at a Time

Chapter 24. Writing and Researching Collaboratively

Chapter 25. Finding Writing and Researching Companions

Appendix. Further Resources

Index