1 BasicInformationabouttheResearchPaper
1a Fearoftheresearchpaper
1b Definitionoftheresearchpaper
1c Formatoftheresearchpaper
1d Reasonsfortheresearchpaper
1e Thereportpaperandthethesispaper
1f Draftsoftheresearchpaper
1g Writingtheresearchpaper:Stepsandschedule
2 ChoosingaTopic
2a Howtochooseatopic
2b Topicstoavoid
2b-1 Topicsthataretoobig
2b-2 Topicsbasedonasinglesource
2b-3Topicsthataretootechnical
2b-4Topicsthataretrivial
2b-5Topicsthatareoverused
2b-6Topicsthatarecontemporary
2c Narrowingthetopic
3 TheLibrary
3a Layoutofthelibrary
3a-1 Thecomputer
3a-2 Onlinefull-textdatabases
3a-3 Microformindexes
3a-4Stacks
3a-5Referenceroomorshelf
3a-6Maindesk
3a-7Reservedesk
3a-8Audiovisualroom
3a-9Microformroom
3a-10Newspaperracks
3a-llComputerroom
3a-12Carrels
3bOrganizationofthelibrarycollections
3b-1TheDeweyDecimalSystem
3b-2TheCutter-SanbornAuthorMarks
3b-3TheLibraryofCongressClassificationSystem
3b-4Classificationofperiodicals
3b-5Classificationofnonbooks
4 TheThesisandtheOutline
4aThethesis:Definitionandfunction
4a-1 Formulatingthethesis
4a-2Rulesforwordingthethesis
4a-3Placingthethesis
4a-4Choosingatitle
4bTheoutline
4b-1 Visualconventionsoftheoutline
4b-2Equalrankinginoutlineentries
4b-3Parallelisminoutlineentries
4b-4Typesofoutlines
a.Thetopicoutline
b.Thesentenceoutline
c.Theparagraphoutline
d.Decimaloutlinenotation
4C Choosinganoutlineform
5UsingtheComputerinYourResearch
6DoingtheResearch
7TransformingtheNotesintoaRoughDraft
8RevisingYourRoughDraft
9TheMLASystemofDovumentation
10TheAPASystemofDovumentaion
11TheTraditionalSstemofDovumentation
12SampleStudentPapers
APPENDICES