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

With advice for finding, evaluating, and documenting sources, this handy spiral-bound pocket guide covers the essential information college students need for research assignments in more than 30 disciplines. New, up-to-date documentation models guide students as they cite common sources and newer sources in the current editions of one of four documentation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE). Advice, examples, and activities help students engage in the research process, find entry points in debates, and develop their authority as researchers. The many examples, according to one college librarian, "are realistic and relevant." Research and Documentation in the Digital Age is the perfect companion to any college textbook.

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Research help for more than twenty-five disciplines, with five documentation styles and sample papers.