Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources

By Nancy L. Joseph

This book is a practical, easy-to-use guide to research writing with step-by-step directions and specific examples. Its focus allows it to be used for almost any research writing.Research Writing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136330584
• ISBN13: 9780136330585
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A Great Resource -- Practical Advice and Clear Explanations for Writers

Hello -- Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic sources is more than a style manual. It goes into great detail about how to select and incorporate source material into a paper. Information about improving writing style is included and the suggestions are helpful. The examples of documentation styles are easy to follow and sample papers are included. I recommend this book.

Pret a remettre

L'investigateur a besoin des bonnes sources traditionnelles des librairies et des bibliotheques. Mais il se sert d'autres sources, telles que les entrevues et les etudes qu'il fait lui-meme, autant que les sources en ligne, et les profs eux-memes. Quant a l'auteur, les avis personnels importent dans les recherches. Mais etudier bien les cours des profs, cela nous aide a comprendre l'essentiel des recherches et des sources, c'est-a-dire le but, les idees et les strateges des auteurs. La meilleure recherche passe depuis l'esquisse, le brouillon, l'epreuve de revision, la redaction, la correction, jusqu'au travail acheve. Dans la recherche prete a remettre, les idees se succedent logiquement et les avis experts, les contre-arguments, les exemples et les statistiques sont cites, paraphrases et resumes.

Scary Research

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.