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The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation

Fifth Edition ©2011 Andrea A. Lunsford, Marcia Muth

The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation, Fifth Edition, is small enough to fit in your pocket but big enough to provide all the reliable help you'll need with research assignments across the disciplines. Offering advice for planning, conducting, and documenting your resear...
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The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation by Andrea A. Lunsford, Marcia Muth - Fifth Edition, 2011 from Macmillan Student Store

A compact and comprehensive guide for your research and citation needs

The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation, Fifth Edition, is small enough to fit in your pocket but big enough to provide all the reliable help you'll need with research assignments across the disciplines. Offering advice for planning, conducting, and documenting your research, the Pocket Guide includes

  • new annotated source maps that give step-by-step guidelines for citing print and electronic materials
  • advice on evaluating sources and navigating today's wired libraries
  • tips for about getting started on a research project
  • guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and for quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing sources
  • helpful lists of resource materials, both print and electronic, for over twenty-five disciplines
  • up-to-date documentation guidelines for MLA, Chicago, APA, CSE, and AIP styles
  • sample student research writing in a variety of disciplines and documentation styles

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Table of Contents

1 Preparing for a Research Project    
Narrowing a Topic    
Determining What You Know   
Preliminary Research Plan    
 
2 Conducting Research     
Kinds of Sources     
Using the Library to Get Started     
Finding Library Resources     
Internet Research     
 
3 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes     
Your Working Bibliography     
Evaluating Usefulness and Credibility     
Critical Reading and Interpretation     
Synthesizing Sources     
Notes and Annotations     
 
4 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism     
Which Sources to Acknowledge    
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism     
 
5 Research in the Humanities     
Resources in the Humanities     
MLA Style     
A Student Research Essay, MLA Style     
Chicago Style     
A Student Research Essay, Chicago Style      
 
6 Research in the Social Sciences     
Resources in the Social Sciences     
APA Style     
A Student Research-Based Essay, APA Style      
 
7 Research in the Natural and Physical Sciences and in Mathematics     
Resources in the Natural and Physical Sciences and in Mathematics     
CSE Style    
A Student Paper, CSE Style     
 
8 Research in the Applied Sciences     
Resources in the Applied Sciences     
AIP Style 

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.

Marcia F. Muth

Marcia F. Muth teaches, writes, and edits.  She has taught first-year writing at The Ohio State University and other introductory courses at St. Peter's College (Englewood Cliffs).  Her many writing workshops have been sponsored by　Fordham University, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and currently　the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver.  She is the author or coauthor of many composition textbooks and ancillaries, including The Bedford Guide for College Writers, The Concise Bedford Guide for Writers, Writing and Revising: A Portable Guide, Researching and Writing: A Portable Guide, and The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation (all from Bedford/St. Martin's).  Her projects as a writer and an editor have included Harold D. Lasswell: An Annotated Bibliography as well as many grant proposals, textbooks, ancillaries, reports, and other publications.  She continues to learn how to write clearly and effectively from her students, editors, reviewers, and writing colleagues.