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Unlike comparable books, Research introduces two sample student research papers in the second chapter, giving students a clear idea of their final goal as they progress through each step of the research and writing process. While covering all the basic research conventions, the book places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind the conventions, helping students develop research skills useful across the curriculum. This book is equally effective as a classroom text and as a reference tool for student researchers.

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• To the Instructor
• 1 Introduction: What Is Research? Doing Research
• The Research Paper
• Primary and Secondary Research
• Benefits of Doing Research
• 2 Two Sample Research Papers
• The Research Process
• A Research Assignment
• The Finished Product
• 3 Selecting a Research Topic
• Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance
• The Benefits of Word Processing
• A Research Notebook
• Your Research Topic
• Generating Ideas
• 4 Tools for Finding Sources
• Beginning Your Research
• Your Campus Library
• Electronic Resources
• Using Your Library's Research Tools
• Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
• Using Electronic Databases
• Internet Resources
• The Reference Librarian The Most Resourceful Resource
• 5 Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters
• Interviewing Sources
• Writing for Information
• Still Other Sources
• 6 Assembling a Prospectus and a Working Bibliography
• A Research Prospectus
• The Working Bibliography
• Bibliographic Formats
• General Guidelines MLA Format
• Model Entries MLA Format
• 7 Putting Your Sources to Work: Reading and Taking Notes
• Using Your Written Sources
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• 8 Reporting on Sources: Paraphrase and Quotation
• The Conventions of Reporting
• Options for Presenting Sources
• Acknowledging Sources
• Relying on Experts
• Paraphrasing Sources
• Quoting Sources
• When to Quote and When to Paraphrase
• A Further Note on Plagiarism
• 9 Using Parenthetical Notes
• Types of Notes
• Parenthetical Notes
• Information Footnotes
• 10 Writing and Revising the Research Paper
• Getting Organized
• Writing the First Good Draft
• Editing and Revising
• 11 Producing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft
• Format for Your Polished Draft
• A Formal Outline. And, Finally, Proofreading the Finished Product
• Appendixes
• A Other Citation Formats: APA Style and Numbered References
• B Footnotes and Endnotes
• Index