Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources

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Summary: Scary Research
Review: Good RESEARCH WRITING USING TRADITIONAL AND ELECTRONIC SOURCES happens when we understand our topics. Nowadays research still takes in the traditional print resources of bookstores and libraries. But it also looks at such nonprint sources as interviews and surveys that we do ourselves; and the reputable documents available through online educational and government Internet sites. It can even include course instructors, who know what is needed for successful papers: after all, they grade them! The author emphasizes not only the ideas and opinions that we bring into research but also the way we respect the information that is out there for us: good, organized note-taking shows what the author's purpose, main ideas and strategies are for every source that we use. Along with logically ordering and tightly connecting ideas, we need to finetune authority and expert opinions, counterarguments, examples and statistics into paraphrased, quoted or summarized evidence while running what will be final copy through outlining, drafting, revising, editing and proofreading. Nancy L. Joseph's clearly organized, reader-friendly book covers all the bases. It also helps to get Joseph Gibaldi's MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, Carole Slade's FORM AND STYLE, and the WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS books by Andrew Harnack, James D. Lester or Stephen Weidenborner.