The Research Guide for the Digital Age: A New Handbook to Research and Writing for the Serious Student

by Francis Burkle-Young author of Passing the Keys: Modern Cardinals, Conclaves, and the Election o, Saundra Rose Maley

Overview

Modern college undergraduates in America generally come to the classroom with no instruction at all in writing the traditional, lucid, formal essay. This small guide to college students will illustrate, clearly and logically, those principles of inquiry, curiosity, discovery, and enthusiasm which will vitalize their future academic careers and their lives as rational and thoughtful adults. A significant number of other texts have appeared over the past decades which also lead the freshman or sophomore student through the processes of doing research and analysis -both on the scientific and the historical method. Few, however, offer an adequate introduction to the new technical methods for identifying, recovering, and assembling relevant research information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761807797
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	05/22/1997
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.36(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.78(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Choosing Your Topic
Chapter 3 Getting Started: Part One
Chapter 4 Getting Started: Part Two
Chapter 5 I. Dialog
Chapter 6 II. Lexis/Nexis
Chapter 7 III. Westlaw
Chapter 8 IV. Other Large Commercial Services
Chapter 9 V. RLIN (Research Libraries' Information Network)
Chapter 10 VI. Melvyl
Chapter 11 VII. Medline
Chapter 12 VIII. The Argus Clearinghouse
Chapter 13 IX. The December List
Chapter 14 X. Altavista
Chapter 15 XI. Yahoo
Chapter 16 XII. Wilson Indexes and Abstracts
Chapter 17 The Annotated Bibliography
Chapter 18 Preserving Your Paper Trail
Chapter 19 Finding the Right People
Chapter 20 Analysis
Chapter 21 Synthesis
Chapter 22 Writing
Chapter 23 Mining the Internet—Again
Chapter 24 A Summing Up
Chapter 25 Annotating Your Own Text
Chapter 26 Assembling the Final Paper
Chapter 27 Conclusion
Chapter 28 Epilogue: Considering Publication
Chapter 29 Appendices