Description: Prefatory Note 1. Introduction 2. Choosing a Topic What to Consider How to Narrow the Topic 3. Collecting Material Using the Library The Information Desk The Reference Room The Card Catalog Evaluating Source Materials 4. Planning the Paper Exploratory Reading Making a Preliminary Bibliography Forms for Bibliography Cards Outlining Taking Stock Organizing Your Material Conventions of Outlining Notetaking Mechanics Types of Notes 5. Writing the Paper Audience and Attitude Purpose and Tone Writing the First Draft Paragraph Structure Sentence Structure Diction Revising the First Draft Writing the Final Copy Paper Margins Spacing Title Pagination Arrangement of Footnotes Bibliography Outline Title Page Proofreading Corrections 6. Some Matters of Style Footnotes Quotations Foreign Words and Expressions Abbreviations With Personal Names Books of the Bible Geographic Names Time Measurements Parts of a Book Organizations Numbers General Rule Series Initial Numbers Round Numbers Percentages and Decimals Fractions Money Parts of Written Works Dates Time of Day Numbers with Names Scientific Usage The Comma with Numbers Continued Numbers Plurals Enumerations Spelling Plurals Possessives Plurals and Possessives of Prepositional-Phrase Compounds Compound Words Capitalization Proper Names Other Names Titles of Written Works Division of Words General Rules Exceptions and Special Rules Punctuation Period Question Mark Exclamation Point Comma Semicolon Colon Dash Parentheses Brackets Other Punctuation Marks Multiple Punctuation 7. Footnote and Bibliographic Forms Reference Footnotes First, Full References List of Abbreviations Cross-References Examples: Basic Forms Books Reports--Published Magazine Articles Encyclopedia Articles Examples: Special Forms Newspapers Radio and Television Programs Public Documents Court Cases Novels Classical Works Plays and Long Poems Shorter Poems The Bible Manuscript Collections Miscellaneous Unpublished Materials Interviews Citations Taken from a Secondary Source References in the Sciences Reference Footnotes: Second or Later References When to Use "Ibid." When Not to Use "Ibid." Content Footnotes Split References Appendix A. Sample Research Paper Appendix B. Select List of Reference Works Index

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