The following is a selective list of books and articles that have been useful to us in thinking about research philosophies and methods. You can find a longer list with annotated recommendations at whereresearchbegins.com.
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald. The Craft of Research. 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Caro, Robert A. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. New York: Knopf, 2019.
Eco, Umberto. How to Write a Thesis. Translated by Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina. Foreword by Francesco Erspamer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.
Gerard, Philip. The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018.