Download or read book The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation written by Andrea A. Lunsford and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation, Fifth Edition, is small enough to fit in your pocket but big enough to provide all the reliable help you'll need with research assignments across the disciplines. Offering advice for planning, conducting, and documenting your research, the Pocket Guide includes new annotated source maps that give step-by-step guidelines for citing print and electronic materials advice on evaluating sources and navigating today's wired libraries tips for about getting started on a research project guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and for quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing sources helpful lists of resource materials, both print and electronic, for over twenty-five disciplines up-to-date documentation guidelines for MLA, Chicago, APA, CSE, and AIP styles sample student research writing in a variety of disciplines and documentation styles