Writing a Successful Research Paper: A Simple Approach (Hackett Student Handbooks)

This brief, practical guide offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a research paper in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, it provides:

• a critical and process-oriented approach to the tasks of topic selection, formulation of the research question, thesis development, and argumentation.
• judiciously selected examples drawn from a broad range of disciplines.
• concise treatment of the aims, methods, and conventions of scholarly research, including the opportunities and pitfalls of Internet use.
• a wealth of conceptual and organizational tools, and more.

Stanley Chodorow is Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, San Diego. He has won four teaching awards and continues to teach undergraduates.