Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook
Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook is a book designed to be consulted
not read. A regular book builds from topic to topic in a steady accumulation
of ideas and facts. This book, in contrast, treats each topic as an independent
unit. You do not need to understand the material in Chapter 2 to progress to
Chapter 3. When you want information on, say, how to document a website, you
simply go to the appropriate chapter or section of the book and copy the model
given there. An exhaustive index and table of contents take a reader instantly to
where the particular material on a particular subject is to be found. Whether the
student chooses to hop from topic to topic, like a feeding butterfl y, or to burrow
like a determined mole through every explanation depends on the individual.
Writing the Research Paper: a Handbook can be used either way. In 1979 when
the fi rst edition was published, we wrote that “no part of this book is dependent
for continuity upon another,” adding, a few sentences later, that the aim was for
students to use “as much of the book as they need, or as little.” That is still the
basic principle behind this book.
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