Research and writing: from planning to production. -- What research is and how researchers think about it. -- Moving from a topic to a question to a working hypothesis. -- Finding useful sources. -- Engaging sources. -- Planning your argument. -- Planning a first draft. -- Drafting your report. -- Presenteing evidence in tables and figures. -- Revising your draft. -- Writing yuor final introduction and conclusion. -- Revising sentences. -- Learning from your returned paper. -- Presenting reserach in alternative forums. -- On the spirit of research. -- Source citation. -- General introduction to citation practices. -- Notes-bibliography: the basic form. -- Notes-bibliography style: citing specific types of sources. -- Parenthetical citations.reference list style: the basic form. -- Parenthetical citations-reference list style: citing specific types of sources. -- Style. -- Spelling. -- Punctuation. -- Names, special terms, and titles of works. -- Numbers. -- Abbreviations. -- Quotations. -- Tables and figures. -- Appendix: paper format and submission.