Finding Answers: A Guide to Conducting and Reporting Research

Reference

Silverman,Jay

Hughes,Elaine

Wienbroer,Diana Roberts

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins College Div

Research can give you power-the power to get what you want. The authors of the best-selling RULES OF THUMB handbook have now recreated their proven pedagogy for a RULES OF THUMB FOR RESEARCH. This concise, spiral-bound, and inexpensive research guide is designed to give students the essential research skills that they need in college and beyond. Everything a student needs to know to write a research paper (or to research a personal topic) is all here-including the fine points-in plain, practical steps.

Rules of Thumb for Research

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Mcgraw-Hill College

RULES OF THUMB, 3/e, is a concise, easy-to-use, and affordable handbook developed around students' real writing needs - proving itself invaluable for writers at all levels of abilities. Extensively class tested, RULES OF THUMB, offers advice on the writing and research process, as well as specific guidance on punctuation, mechanics, usage, and a wide variety of common assignments. The brevity and practical style make RULES OF THUMB the reference handbook students will turn to, again and again, throughout their college careers and beyond.

Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers

Literature & Fiction

This practical guide introduces students to the world of electronic research. It features an introduction that covers what students need to know before they start their research and then provides step-by-step guidance on how to conduct their research - complete with examples of MLA, APA, and ACS documentation formats.

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research and Documentation

The authors of RULES OF THUMB developed this practical exercise book to offer a variety of exercises and activities that follow the RULES OF THUMB organization and student-oriented presentation. GOOD MEASURES goes beyond the usual bounds of exercise books by including a variety of writing and editing assignments, and a sample student research paper. The variety of reinforcement presents "measures" students can take to practice new skills and grow as writers.

Good Measures: A Practice Book to Accompany Rules of Thumb

In the business world, limply written, badly organized documents can subtly but steadily downgrade your career. You’ve got to write clearly, concisely, and energetically--without meandering, repeating yourself, or sabotaging your ideas with poorly constructed sentences, stilted language, and embarrassing grammatical errors. Get the help you need--now--with RULES OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS. Written by the author team of the best-selling RULES OF THUMB: A GUIDE FOR WRITERS, this new guide is designed especially to meet the real writing demands of daily business. Whether you’re composing a letter, preparing an outline for your next big report, or simply wondering whether or not that comma makes sense, RULES OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS explains how to do it right. It’s packed with concise explanations of the most frequent problems in writing, bulleted lists of easy-to-read guidelines, and hundreds of practical guidelines that instantly illustrate each concept. Quickly and easily, you’ll learn how to find your focus, break up your thoughts effectively, format your documents for optimal readability, begin with an attention-grabbing bang, adopt a straightforward, conversational tone, and improve your style. And you’ll learn how to write succinctly, accurately, and persuasively, whether in formal business correspondence, more casual e-mail messages, memos, agendas, instructions manuals, reports, newsletters and press releases, proposals, or résumés. PLUS, you’ll learn to effortlessly adhere to the rules of punctuation, grammar, and usage, understanding when to capitalize, choosing the correct pronoun, avoiding fragments and run-on sentences, properly placing apostrophes, and more. There’s even helpful advice on tackling special topics, such as conducting research on the Web efficiently, using footnotes accurately, developing templates to simplify future tasks, planning and executing a long-term project, and editing the work of others. A valuable appendix of ready-to-use memos, letters, agendas, résumés, and more round out this handy book. RULES OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS helps you take all those amorphous ideas and disjointed bits of information and record them in a way that is clear, logical, and action-oriented. It’s the on-the-job reference you’ll turn to again and again, for both a thorough overview of the essentials of great writing and for fast, easy lessons on key topics.

Rules of Thumb for Business Writers

McGraw=Hill

Based on the popular textbook Rules of Thumb, this handy quick-reference guide has been designed for use by students or anyone else in need of writing advice. It's an all-in-one, at-aglance resource that provides fast, concise answers to common questions about: <ul>
<li>Grammar </li>
<li>Punctuation </li>
<li>Style </li>
<li>Usage </li>
<li>Formal Correspondence </li>
<li>E-mails </li>
<li>Memos </li>
<li>Proposals </li>
<li>Resumes </li>
<li>Searching the Web </li>
<li>Creating templates </li>
<li>Editing </li>
<li>And more </li>
</ul>

Shortcuts for the Student Writer

Rules of Thumb is a concise, user-friendly, and affordable handbook developed around students' real writing needs. An invaluable companion for writers at all levels, it gives students the advice they need on writing, research, grammar, and style in a clear and engaging voice. Reflecting the most current APA documentation styles, the eighth edition remains the ideal handbook for improving grammar without overwhelming student writers with specialized terminology.

Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers with 1999 MLA Updates

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art is a brief handbook for students that introduces the process of conducting online research. From the hardware basics of connecting to the Internet, through the advanced vagaries of search techniques and copyright law, The McGraw-Hill Guide is a valuable primer to the principles and pitfalls of web-based references.

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art

Arts & Photography

ALLEN, WILLIAM

Photography & Video

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The third in a successful McGraw-Hill series that includes Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers, Rules of Thumb for Online Research, and Rules of Thumb for Research, this guide has been designed to be used as a main text, a supplementary resource, and as a quick and easy reference. With full course of the writing process, directions, and advice that work, Rules of Thumb for Business Writers addresses the most common writing problems students will face every day in the business world.

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Finding Answers: A Guide to Conducting and Reporting Research

Rules of Thumb for Research

Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research and Documentation

Good Measures: A Practice Book to Accompany Rules of Thumb

Rules of Thumb for Business Writers

Shortcuts for the Student Writer

Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers with 1999 MLA Updates

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art

Rules of Thumb for Business Writers