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Handbook for College Research (with 2009 MLA Update Card)
ISBN: 9780495899525 | 0495899526
Edition: 3rdFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/20/2009
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Complete, concise, and specially designed for easy access, this guide to the process of writing the research paper features a no-nonsense handbook format that helps students quickly find the information they need. The Third Edition of Handbook for College Research provides the latest information on locating and evaluating print and electronic source material as well as documenting sources in four different styles (the APA, Chicago, CBE, and updated MLA guidelines). In addition to guiding students in the stages of writing the research paper--planning, drafting, and revising, this edition includes convenient, in-text annotations with each citation, providing clear visual models of the four styles. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.
| Moving from Subject to Topic: Where Research Begins | |
| Choose a general subject | |
| Narrow your general subject to a specific topic | |
| Work with assigned subjects, when appropriate | |
| Planning Thesis Statements and Stated Objectives | |
| Write a working thesis statement, when appropriate | |
| State your objectives, when appropriate | |
| Defining Research Goals and Evaluating Sou... MORE | |
| Acknowledge the goals of your research | |
| Consider the kinds of sources you need | |
| Consider the currentness of your sources | |
| Consider the availability of your sources | |
| Learning about Your Library | |
| Locate the circulation area | |
| Explore the reference area | |
| Familiarize yourself with the catalog area | |
| Explore the stacks | |
| Familiarize yourself with the current periodicals area | |
| Locate the government documents area | |
| Explore the microform area | |
| Find the media area | |
| Browse in the new-book area | |
| Find the preshelving areas | |
| Locate the library's computer clusters | |
| Search out the special collections | |
| Locate any special libraries | |
| Find the interlibrary loan department | |
| Locate the reserve area | |
| Find the photocopy areas | |
| Locate the group study rooms | |
| Learning to Use Online Catalogs and Periodical Databases | |
| Remember what all online catalogs have in common | |
| Learn to locate and interpret information on search screens | |
| Consider the benefits of online periodical databases | |
| Consider what all comprehensive periodical databases have in common | |
| Learn to locate and interpret information on search screens | |
| Conducting Field Research and Using Audiovisual Sources | |
| Consider experts from radio and television | |
| Consider local experts | |
| Consider responses from informed nonspecialists | |
| Prepare thoroughly for interviews | |
| Plan questionnaires and surveys carefully | |
| Consider audiovisual sources | |
| Using the Internet and Other Electronic Sources | |
| Explore a variety of Internet search engines | |
| Learn to interpret Internet search results | |
| Consider the kinds of Internet sources available | |
| Learn how to find information on home pages | |
| Use Web sites judiciously | |
| Consider discussion (or interest) groups | |
| Consider CD-ROM sources | |
| Be aware of special concerns about using electronic sources | |
| Evaluating Sources and Writing a Research Proposal | |
| Compile a preliminary list of sources | |
| Evaluate print sources | |
| Evaluate audiovisual sources | |
| Evaluate Internet sources | |
| Evaluate your combinations of sources | |
| Prepare a research proposal | |
| Thinking Critically | |
| Think critically, analyzing alternative methods of development | |
| Analyze your audience | |
| Evaluate evidence | |
| Avoid logical fallacies | |
| Taking Notes from Sources | |
| Consider alternative techniques for taking notes | |
| Take complete, consistent, accurate notes | |
| Take different kinds of notes, depending on the material | |
| Consider the issues of common knowledge | |
| Recognize the seriousness of plagiarism | |
| Planning the Paper | |
| Review your research | |
| Revise the working thesis statement or objective | |
| Develop an informal outline | |
| Group your notes to follow your outline | |
| Prepare a formal outline, when needed | |
| Writing the Draft of the Paper | |
| Remember general strategies for drafting papers | |
| Consider strategies that apply principally to drafting research papers | |
| Incorporate notes in the paper | |
| Use parenthetical notes to document research | |
| Plan your title and your introductory and concluding paragraphs | |
| Revising the Paper | |
| Reconsider content | |
| Rework style | |
| Eliminate technical errors | |
| Solicit responses from other readers | |
| Using MLA Style When Appropriate | |
| Prepare complete citations for the works-cited page | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for books and other separately published material | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for periodicals | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for audiovisual sources | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for the Internet and other electronic sources | |
| When appropriate, follow MLA guidelines to prepare your manuscript | |
| Using APA Style When Appropriate | |
| Recognize the distinct documentation patterns of APA style | |
| Consider patterns for in-text citations | |
| Prepare complete entries for the reference list | |
| Follow the appropriate reference-list entry forms for periodicals | |
| Follow the appropriate reference-list entry forms for books and other separately published materials | |
| Follow the appropriate reference-list entry forms for audiovisual sources | |
| Follow the appropriate reference-list entry forms for electronic sources | |
| When appropriate, follow APA guidelines to prepare your manuscript | |
| Using Chicago Style When Appropriate | |
| Recognize the distinct documentation patterns in Chicago style | |
| Consider patterns for footnotes and endnotes | |
| Follow the appropriate note forms for books and other separately published materials | |
| Follow the appropriate note forms for periodicals | |
| Follow the appropriate note forms for audiovisual sources | |
| Follow the appropriate note forms for electronic sources | |
| When required, prepare a bibliography | |
| When appropriate, follow Chicago guidelines to prepare your manuscript | |
| Using CBE Style When Appropriate | |
| Recognize the distinct documentation patterns of CBE style | |
| Consider patterns for in-text documentation | |
| Complete citations for the reference page | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for books and other separately published materials | |
| Follow the appropriate citation forms for periodicals and audiovisual sources | |
| When appropriate, follow CBE guidelines to prepare your manuscript | |
| Document Design and Manuscript Preparation Basic Printing Features Visual Elements MLA Manuscript Guidelines | |
| Abbreviations and Shortened Forms of Publishers' Names Modern Language Association (MLA) University of Chicago (Chicago) Council of Biology Editors (CBE) | |
| Glossary of Computer Terms | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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