The Bedford Research Room

The Bedford Research Room offers hyperlinked essays on How to Search: an Online Library Catalog, a Database, and the Web. Other essays describe How to: Evaluate Sources, Develop a Research Question, Work with Information from Sources, Write for the Web, Create a Works Cited or References List. Other topics include Skimming, Interviewing, Observing, Conducting Surveys, and Field Research.

A Writer's Reference

Go to A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker for Electronic Writing Exercises, Electronic Grammar Exercises, Electronic Research Exercise (including documentation in MLA, APA, and CMS (Chicago) Style (The exercises can be emailed to the teacher.), Language Debates, Model Papers, Library Links, Research and Documentation Online, and Additional Resources.

Studyguide.org

Studyguide.org offers Research Paper Packet prepared by Mrs. Adams, a high school teacher. Include in the packet are Hints for Writing, Thesis Statement, Speech, Sentence Outline, Grading Rubric, and even a Proposal Letter.

Rubrics

Rubrics are essential when writing papers. One excellent example is cited here. Here is a checklist rubric.

The Hamilton Writing Center

The Hamilton Writing Center offers an Essentials of Writing Style Sheet that is interactive and hyperlinked to additional resources. Topics discussed are: The Writing Process, Audience, Organizing Your Paper, Formatting and Writing with Computers, Essentials of English Usage, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Documentation in Writing, Works Cited, Footnotes, and Departmental Preferences. The Writing Tips and Guides offers information on writing journals, book reviews, short essays, and essays for other subjects like biology, philosophy, and history. Sources and Citations offers information on the APA, Chicago, CBE, and the MLA styles. The Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Writing covers: Passive Voice, Punctuation, Wordiness, The Apostrophe, Modifiers, Pronouns, and more. This site is a must see for students.

Composition 102: Writing the Research Paper

Composition 102: Writing the Research Paper is a collection of 25 handouts prepared by George Brosi at Eastern Kentucky University. Topics include: The Nature of Scholarly Inquiry, Plagiarism, Paraphrase and Summary, The M.L.A. Style, The Research Paper Thesis, A Research Paper Checklist, and more.