Dependable, contemporary, and complete, Writing Research Papers is everything a research guide is meant to be. This ninth edition features: the most up to date guidance on electronic research and writing, with new, illustrated sections on using computers to discover a topic and find and evaluate resources; the most current and complete information on documenting traditional and electronic sources in MLA and APA styles, the CBE number system, and the Chicago footnote style; new and updated sample papers using internet sources and examining interesting topics such as legal inequities, autism, and UFOS, as well as new example readings for evaluating and responding to sources; a new appendix B identifying important and credible internet sources across the disciplines; expanded coverage of many topics such as long and short proposals, government sources, organizational paradigms, journals and magazines, note writing, field research, argument, writing from outlines and notes, using data, statistics, and special evidence, paragraphs in the body of the paper, avoiding bias, and APA style working drafts.