Updated with tips on computer use related to library research and use of word processing software, the new edition of this popular guide also features an entirely new sample research paper. The authors point out style formalities and parenthetical source documentation and show the proper methods of avoiding plagiarism.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
(back cover)
Clear directions for writing papers in virtually all academic subjects
Selecting an appropriate subject Formulating and outlining a provisional thesis Preparing your bibliography Taking notes from sources Preparing your first draft Revising and editing your paper to its finished form
You'll also find important advice on avoiding plagiarism, getting the most from library and Internet research sources, and much more.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Clear directions for writing papers in virtually all academic subjects
You'll also find important advice on avoiding plagiarism, getting the most from library and Internet research sources, and much more.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Roberta H. Markman, Ph. D.: good writer, bad teacher.,
This review is from: 10 Steps in Writing the Research Paper (Paperback)
Markman is a much better writer than teacher. I'm taking an Advanced Composition class for high school and we're using this book as a guide. Markman gets off to a great start, in fact, the first few pages are simply inspirational. But after that, it's all downhill. The section on bib cards is just confusing. Instead of providing an outline of how to set them up and examples (like the MLA Guide to Writing a Research Paper), she provides only examples (and many of those examples contain an unbelievable amount of Spanish text). The example on how to reference a casebook were so confused, I ended up just going to looking at the MLA's Reference. The section on taking notes is also unorganized and hard to follow. While I believe she could do an excellent job of guiding us through this procedure, she makes it much more complex than it needs to be. Also, I was reading her sixth edition, published recently. In my opinion, she should have revised the notecard section to show how easy it is to use a computer to take notes. My final complaint about this book is the section on plaigerism. Basically, it teaches a student the best way to plaigerise a book, especially at the high school level. If you're really interested in writing a good research paper, seek another book.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for High Schoolers,
By A Customer
This review is from: 10 Steps in Writing the Research Paper (Paperback)
This book is an excellent source of information
for high school students writing research papers!
I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to do research. Whether a first-time writer or someone who has do countless papers, this book shows you step-by-step how to write an excellent paper.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Useless in the modern age,
This review is from: 10 Steps in Writing the Research Paper (Paperback)
I am a teaching assistant in a Social Science research methods class at the University level and am published author in my discipline. In 1995 I took a class taught by Dr. Markman in which she tried to teach Honors undergraduates how to write a research paper. She failed. The methods provided in this text, unchanged since 1994 reflect that the authors learned to write research papers in the era of card files and typewriters. Even advanced high school students have probably written enough by the time they encounter this book that they'll have to unlearn a lot of valuable skills to employ the method contained here. In 1995 it was a little dated for the average student, and very dated for the tech savvy (me). In 2009, it is potentially harmful.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
Finding a topic that will interest you, one that is worth your time to investigate and one for which you will have the necessary time and materials, is an extremely important step in writing the research paper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporary thesis, whose subject matter changes, temporary outline, mythic art, bibliography card, final bibliography, end punctuation, both mythology, preliminary bibliography, jacket notes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Joseph Campbell, San Francisco, Marck Editions, Ben Belitt, Harvard University Press, Long Beach, Masks of the Spirit, Schirn Kunsthalle, The Perseus Digital Library, Time-Life Records, Tufts University, University of Pittsburgh, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Fullerton College, Instituto Guerrerense de la Cultura, University of California Press, Ambiguities of Violence, American Literary History Winter, California State University, College English January, Roberta Hoffman, The Presidential Policy Scoreboard, World Wide Web New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Finding a topic that will interest you, one that is worth your time to investigate and one for which you will have the necessary time and materials, is an extremely important step in writing the research paper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporary thesis, whose subject matter changes, temporary outline, mythic art, bibliography card, final bibliography, end punctuation, both mythology, preliminary bibliography, jacket notes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Joseph Campbell, San Francisco, Marck Editions, Ben Belitt, Harvard University Press, Long Beach, Masks of the Spirit, Schirn Kunsthalle, The Perseus Digital Library, Time-Life Records, Tufts University, University of Pittsburgh, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Fullerton College, Instituto Guerrerense de la Cultura, University of California Press, Ambiguities of Violence, American Literary History Winter, California State University, College English January, Roberta Hoffman, The Presidential Policy Scoreboard, World Wide Web New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 67
books:
See all 67 books this book cites
- Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts by Mircea Eliade on 8 pages
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell on 7 pages
- The Language of Images (A Critical Inquiry Book) by W. J. T. Mitchell on 6 pages
- Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade on 5 pages
- Myth, Symbol, and Reality (Boston University studies in philosophy and religion) by Alan Olson on page 41, page 60, and Back Matter
See all 67 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
