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Genre/Form: | Handbook Handbooks and manuals Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Gibaldi; Walter S Achtert; Modern Language Association of America. |
ISBN: | 0873523792 9780873523790 0873521323 9780873521321 |
OCLC Number: | 17548889 |
Description: | vii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Phyllis Franklin -- Research and Writing -- The Research Paper as a Form of Exploration -- The Research Paper as a Form of Writing -- Selecting a Topic -- Conducting Research -- The Modern Academic Library -- The Central Information System -- Reference Works -- The Online Catalog of Library Holdings -- Other Library Resources and Services -- Internet Sources -- Compiling a Working Bibliography -- Evaluating Sources -- Authorship and Authority -- Accuracy and Verifiability -- Currency -- Taking Notes -- Plagiarism -- Outlining -- Working Outline -- Thesis Statement -- Final Outline -- Writing Drafts -- Language and Style -- Guides to Writing -- The Mechanics of Writing -- Spelling -- Consistency -- Word Division -- Plurals -- Foreign Words -- Punctuation -- The Purpose of Punctuation -- Commas -- Semicolons -- Colons -- Dashes and Parentheses -- Hyphens -- Apostrophes -- Quotation Marks -- Square Brackets -- Slashes -- Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points -- Italics (Underlining) -- Words and Letters Referred to as Words and Letters -- Foreign Words in an English Text -- Emphasis -- Names of Persons -- First and Subsequent Uses of Names -- Titles of Persons -- Names of Authors and Fictional Characters -- Numbers -- Arabic Numerals -- Use of Words or Numerals -- Commas in Numbers -- Percentages and Amounts of Money -- Dates and Times of the Day -- Inclusive Numbers -- Roman Numerals -- Titles of Works in the Research Paper -- Capitalization and Punctuation -- Underlined Titles. |
Responsibility: | Joseph Gibaldi, Walter S. Achtert. |
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Abstract:
A set of conventions governing the written presentation of research papers. Also serves as a teaching tool or a classroom text.

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