The Facts On File Guide To Research - Hardcover

Lenburg, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816057419 ISBN 13: 9780816057412

Publisher: Facts on File, 2005

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to doing thorough and accurate research includes a detailed listing of available resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources.

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Grade 8 Up–A nuts-and-bolts guide to research. Introductory chapters offer strategies to help students get started, including suggestions for narrowing a topic, developing a list of keywords, and creating a timetable for completion. Gathering Your Information is an overview of the variety of sources that most libraries provide, such as online catalogs, microforms, periodicals, and electronic databases. Evaluating Your Sources addresses timeliness, relevance, objectivity, accuracy, and more. This narrative section is followed by lengthy chapters that list specific sources by type of resource, such as government publications and e-mail discussion groups, and then by subject areas, such as aging, literature, science, and theater. A unique feature is a listing of newspapers by state; listings of free Web e-journals and URLs for all state libraries are also provided. There is a chapter on search engines and how to use them. Subject chapters include an introduction, annotated bibliographies of reference books and journals, followed by selected full-text article databases and selected Web sites. A final chapter about citing sources and avoiding plagiarism is followed by appendixes that show examples of APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of Style bibliographic format. A no-frills, solid reference source.–Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816057419
• ISBN 13: 9780816057412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560