Award-winning celebrity biographer, ball historian, and columnist Jeff Lenburg, the columnist of 16 books, writes a new, all-embracing step-to-step adviser to autograph and analysis for students, businesspeople, and humans of all ages
-- With the all-inclusive access of advance of cyberbanking technology, basic libraries, the Internet, and acceptable libraries, it’s not consistently simple to apperceive what sources one should argue aboriginal or accede accurate. Planning to analysis a accountable that interests but borderline area to activate or acquisition the assets you need? Well, finally, one a new all-important adviser offers aggregate you charge to do analysis from alpha to finish.
Award-winning columnist Jeff Lenburg has bound the a lot of absolute book on the subject, “The Facts On File Guide to Research” (Facts On File, $45.00, hardcover; $18.95, barter paperback). Called a “no frills, solid advertence source” by the “School Library Journal,” this 592-page, easy-to-understand, step-by-step adviser explains the action of accomplishing research, from developing a accountable or affair and planning analysis and a seek strategy, to acquisition advice and evaluating sources, and abundant more.
As the columnist of 16 books, including several acknowledged celebrity biographies, ball histories, and accepted references, Lenburg has begin the a lot of important allotment of autograph is award aboveboard and reliable analysis and sources of information.
“I’ve consistently enjoyed accepting my easily bedraggled accomplishing research,” Lenburg mused. “I allegorize it to accepting an archaeologist on an important dig. Half the fun is the coursing to ascertain something rare, new, or that you never were blind of or never knew existed.”
Lenburg, who aswell teaches autograph courses at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a accepted accoutrement on campus, said what aggressive him to address the book was the actuality abounding of his acceptance didn’t absolutely accept how to research. “Their absolute abstraction of researching a accountable was surfing Yahoo! and Google, or added accepted Internet seek engines. As my book demonstrates, there are far added acclaimed resources, besides the Web, that one should analysis first. Many are accessible for chargeless at your bounded accessible and academy libraries that you can access.”
In autograph this book, Lenburg said he consulted with amaranthine library and barter affiliation professionals, adroitness associates and advisers from added above universities and colleges, adolescent advisers and authors, and a advanced array of added sources to accumulation the a lot of advisory advertence on the subject. “I owe abundant of the success of my book to these accomplished individuals, abounding who accept adherent their absolute lives to the abstraction and convenance of library science and research,” he said.
Written for students, businesspeople, and accepted readers of all ages defective to analysis and address analysis papers, articles, books, reports, essays, and chic studies, besides discussing accepted methods to planning and administering research, Lenburg anxiously data bags of altered sources of advice and outlets of advice accessible in the United States and throughout the world. Some of them cover athenaeum and archival collections; associations, societies, and organizations with research; biographical information; cyberbanking databases with full-text articles; and cyberbanking journals and newsgroups; accepted references (almanacs, bibliographies, journal and bi-weekly indexes, yearbooks, and more); government agencies and publications, libraries (academic, government, public, school, research, special, and accompaniment libraries); newspapers, magazines, journals, and radio and television stations; and analysis on the Web on around any subject.
“No added book, to my knowledge, absolutely data or provides acceptance to such a deluge of sources in a individual volume,” Lenburg noted.
Likewise, Lenburg’s book surveys the a lot of recommended advice sources by libraries and researchers, advertisement important analysis sources, such called books and references, book and Web article indexes, periodicals and Web sites, to analysis any accountable or acreage of interest, from crumbling to women’s studies. Valuable appendixes featuring appearance guides for APA, MLA, and “The Chicago Manual of Style” annular out the volume.
“The Facts On File Guide to Research” by Jeff Lenburg is accessible through bounded and absolute bookstores, including Barnes and Noble, Bookstar, and Borders, online retailers, such as Amazon.com, and civic wholesalers, including Ingram Book Group and Baker and Taylor, or can be purchased from the administrator on the web at www.factsonfile.com.
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