DESCRIPTION

Nancy Vyhmeister's Quality Research Papers is fast becoming a standard reference textbook for writing research papers in the field of religion and theology.

It takes the student from the beginning assignment of a paper through the research phase to the finished paper. This second edition gives improvements and added material for such things as the expanding field of online research and doing church-related research in a professional manner.

Resources for doing research are updated throughout the book.

Step by step, this book guides you in:

• selecting a topic and narrowing it down to a workable area of research
• effectively using library and computer resources
• writing clear and relevant notes
• organizing your thoughts
• formatting the paper, including footnotes and bibliography
• presenting specific research such as surveys and case studies
• using statistics, tables and graphs