Kurt Lindemann is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication at San Diego State University (SDSU). He also serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Performance, an interdisciplinary center at SDSU focused on the critical inquiry of live art and screen culture. Dr. Lindemann has taught courses in English composition, communication theory and methods, and more, and has published numerous scholarly and magazine articles, fiction, and poetry.

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• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiii1 So You Have to Write a Research Paper … 12 Brainstorm and Research: Formulating and Answering Questions 213 Making Arguments, Providing Support 434 Style and Format: How to Say What You Want to Say 735 Writing the Literature Review: Arguing for Audiences 1016 Application and Reaction Papers 1177 Writing Empirical Research Papers 1278 What Next? Presenting and Publishing Papers 145Index 161