Writing Research Papers with 2009 MLA and 2010 Updates : A Guide to the Process

A friendly, easy-to-use guide, Writing Research Papers walks students through every step of the research process — from finding a topic to searching the Web to formatting the final manuscript. The seventh edition is thoroughly revised to help students find and evaluate the very best sources amidst the flood of information that electronic searching makes available.

STEPHEN WEIDENBORNER was a professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York for over thirty years. He coauthored several other composition textbooks with DOMENICK CARUSO, also a former professor of English at Kingsborough Community College.

GARY PARKS is an English professor at Shoreline Community College, in Shoreline, Washington. He has been teaching composition, literature, and creative writing for almost 20 years. His research interests include online communication and distance learning, and he helped pioneer his college's first Web-based distance learning courses. A member of NCTE and CCC, he has given presentations at various assessment and distance learning conferences as well as at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. He is a contributing author to the Bedford/St. Martin's VirtuaLit Fiction site and has had short stories published in several literary magazines.