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.
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
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 ...