Q1. Under Construct. The Way of Research

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Chapter Q2.   Writing the Paper

Chapter Q3. Using the Web

Chapter Q4.   Quotes & Paraphrases

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Q5. Under Construct. Preparing a Bibliography

Web Sites on Research Writing

Web Sites on Citing & Documenting

Web Sites on References & Resources

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• Eight brief lessons on quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and making a bibliography: Minnesota

• Evaluating Internet sources (UWisc-Eau Claire): 

• Evaluating Web sites: Minnesota

• Field research links: Bedford Researcher

• General help and sample research papers: Bedford Researcher

• General processes: The Bedford Researcher

• "Guides to Library, Internet, and Field Research": Colorado State

• "Library Research Guide": Minnesota

• Legal Citation: Cornell U

• Library sources: LibrarySpot  

• "Links for Specific Disciplines": Bedford Researcher 

• "Overview of the Research Process": ResearchNavigator.com (Pearson)

• Quotations, choosing and incorporating: Wisconsin   

• Plagiarism, learning what it is and avoiding it: CollegeWriting.info

• Plagiarism avoidance resource list: Bedford Researcher

• Research paper, definition of: Harvard   

• The research process: "Research and the Research Paper," a series of essays by Thomson

• Search engines: Minnesota

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            Most composition, English, humanities, and foreign language courses use "MLA" ("Modern Language Association") citation and documentation.  Once you are writing for a specific discipline, you may be asked to use a different documentation style--one used specifically by that discipline.  The following are links to descriptions and examples of several major styles.

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MLA (English and Humanities) and APA (Social Sciences and Nursing):

• MLA: Purdue  

• MLA and APA: Colorado State, Minnesota, and Texas   

• APA: Purdue  

• Advanced: Iowa

ELECTRONIC and OTHER STYLES:

• Electronic Citations: Purdue ( MLA and APA) and Harnack and Kleppinger's online!, a reference guide to using internet sources (MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE)

• Chicago/Turabian (History): Colorado State and Wisconsin

• CBE (Science): Colorado State and Wisconsin  

• AP (Journalism): Missouri and PSU

• ASA (Sociology): Purdue  

• Legal Citation: Cornell U

• Advanced: Iowa

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References (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.)

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online

• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert A. Harris

• Newbury House Dictionary from Thomson Publishing

• Online Subject Dictionaries (e.g., a dictionary of the social sciences or a dictionary of psychology)

• www.refdesk.com (a collection of links to current news stories and a wide variety of online reference books) 

• www.dictionary.com (dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, and foreign language dictionaries)

• www.yourdictionary.com (long list of many kinds of subjects; dictionaries--e.g., "Religion" and "Medical"--and surfing access to them)

• www.s9.com/biography (biographies of 28,000 famous people)

• http://www.freeglossary.com (over 400,000 word entries in ten languages) 

Online Libraries

• Library of Congress

• www.ipl.org (9500 online books and over 2300 journals)

• www.elibrary.com (a Web online-library search engine)

• www.libraryspot.com: (hundreds of libraries and references)

Newspapers

• www.newspapers.com (links to national and world newspapers and to some magazines/journals)

• http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ (search for any newspaper by country, state, or name)

Other Online Research

• History (short) of the English Language

• Translation, English to French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, or Italian 

• Rhetoric: an online "guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric"

• Word lovers' delight: www.logophilia.com  

• Directory of 3000+ North American college and university Web sites    

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Researching--old WSW:

Chapter 27. Finding Sources--Thinking of Ideas and Drafting (to be written)
Chapter 28. Using Sources--Developing and Organizing Your Ideas (to be written)
Chapter 29. Citing and Documenting Sources--Supporting Your Ideas.
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