Series: Facts on File Library of Language and Literature | Publication Date: August 2005
The Facts On File Guide to Research, Second Edition by Jeff Lenburg is the most comprehensive guide available to conducting thorough and accurate research. It includes detailed lists of thousands of resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources. This expanded and updated edition contains new information on Internet research, including up-to-date discussions of Google and other search engines, subject-specific keyword search strategies, a cautionary note about Wikipedia, and much more.
The volume is divided into four easy-to-use sections:
Researching Your Topic contains a step-by-step guide to the research process, with information on developing a subject and planning research, gathering information, and evaluating sources
Finding Sources of Information explains how to find, access, and use a number of different sources, from archival collections and biographical indexes to government agencies, newspapers, and magazines, from online and electronic services to radio and television, and many more
Finding Sources by Subject contains detailed lists of credible research sources categorized by subject matter
Using Your Sources explains how to cite sources, avoid plagiarism, and create a bibliography.
The Facts On File Guide to Research, Second Edition helps students and general readers prepare for research papers and class studies. Valuable appendixes cover style guides, including APA, MLA, and The Chicago Manual of Style.
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"This valuable guide should be found in multiple copies in school and public libraries." -- Booklist
"..an excellent volume that should be a useful addition to most reference collections." -- Choice
"Intended for grades six through 12, this one-stop subject guide may also benefit college-level students, since it presents information included in freshman composition courses...Especially enlightening are essays on keyword searches, a surprisingly complex research component that is well explained. " -- Library Journal
"From finding the information to creating a comprehensive bibliography, Lenburg gives readers all the information they need to use the internet well, making "Guide to Research" an invaluable and ecclesiastically recommended resource." -- Midwest Book Review--This text refers to an alternate
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Jeff Lenburg is an award-winning author of 30 popular non-fiction and fiction books that have have been nominated for several awards, including the American Library Association's 'Best Non-Fiction Award' and the Evangelical Christian Publisher Association's 'Gold Medallion Award' for 'Best Autobiography/Biography.'
As a teenager, Jeff began interviewing many famous Hollywood personalities and became a frequent contributor to many leading and respected film journals and magazines that published his freelance work.
Jeff's most recently published titles include his forthcoming guide to a career in film, television and games animation, "Career Opportunities in Animation" (Ferguson Publishing); his revised second edition of his acclaimed writing and research reference, "The Facts On File Guide to Research"; his third of edition of so-called "Bible" on the history of more than 3,100 animated cartoons, "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons" (Facts On File); and his first critically-acclaimed mystery novel, "Scared to Death: A Lori Matrix Hollywood Mystery" (iUniverse).
One of the nation's premier celebrity biographers, Jeff has penned such best-selling biographies as "All The Gold In California and Other Places, People & Things" (Thomas Nelson Publishers), the autobiography of Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin; "Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake" (St. Martin's Press); "Dudley Moore: An Informal Biography" (Delilah Books); "Dustin Hoffman: Hollywood's Antihero" (St. Martin's Press); "Steve Martin: An Unauthorized Biography" (St. Martin's Press), and numerous others. He also co-wrote with radio/TV legend Gary Owens the long-awaited autobiographical 'how-to,' "How to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying)"(McGraw Hill).
An acknowledged authority on cartoon animation, Jeff has spent three decades preserving its history. He has penned seven books about this lively art: the first-ever "Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators" (Applause); three editions of "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons" (Facts On File), the most comprehensive history on animated cartoons ever produced; "The Great Cartoon Directors" (DaCapo Press); and two editions of "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series" (Arlington House Publishers), the first reference book on animated cartoons ever produced.
In 1991, in recognition of his contributions to the world of animation, Jeff was inducted into Hollywood's 'Cartoon Legends Walk of Fame' along with cartoon icons William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Friz Freleng, June Foray and Don Messick.
Jeff is also a leading expert on the Three Stooges comedy team. A close friend of Stooges Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita (and the only author-historian to have known them), he has co-written two books about this wacky comedy trio: "The Three Stooges Scrapbook'(Citadel Press), the official, authorized history, and "Once A Stooge, Always A Stooge" (Roundtable Publishing), the autobiography of Three Stooges member Joe Besser. In 1983, along with radio-TV legend Gary Owens and his twin brother Greg, he spearheaded a nationwide write-in campaign that earned the Stooges their long overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A long-time baseball enthusiast, Jeff is also the author of the critically acclaimed, definitive history of baseball's mid-summer classic, "Baseball's All-Star Game: A Game-by-Game Guide" (McFarland & Company).
Likewise Jeff has interviewed dozens of other major personalities, world figures and headline-makers, including baseball Hall of Famers George Brett and Nolan Ryan, tennis champ Chris Evert, former First Lady Betty Ford, media magnate Walter Annenberg (founder of "TV Guide"), and former New York policeman Frank Serpico.
A popular media figure, Jeff has appeared on more than 100 major radio and television programs worldwide, including "BBC Live," NBC's "Today Show," "Entertainment Tonight," CNN's "Showbiz Today," and E!'s "Mysteries & Scandals." He makes his home near Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife Debby.
I was interested in this book for two reasons, one, I know the author, and two, I knew my daughter would find this as a great reference for her future studies and projects in high school.
Its full of information on just about anything you could want to research in every catagory across the globe, I would strongly recommend this book to anyone in high school or college, for doing any type of report, thesis or just for basic reference material.
You can tell the author (Jeff Lenburg) really put a lot of time and work into this book. I feel it should be a common reference material on any high school or college library shelf. It would also be beneficial for professors or teachers of any grade level.
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Good research is valuable in many aspects and pursuits in life. "Guide to Research: Finding Information in Print and Online" is an educational guide to researching using the internet. The internet is an incredibly powerful tool with tons of information, however not all of its good. As an open media, it can be hard at times to find genuine information in a sea of opinion. Jeff Lenburg gives advice on using Google and other search engines to their full power, cautions about the use of Wikipedia, and much more. From finding the information to creating a comprehensive bibliography, Lenburg gives readers all the information they need to use the internet well, making "Guide to Research" an invaluable and ecclesiastically recommended resource.
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