A wonderful, easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial on performing research that will help you gain practical skills and knowledge you can apply for all of your research needs. This guide introduces you to developing a research question, searching library resources, citing your sources, and much more.
The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition by Wayne C. Booth, et al.
Publication Date: 2016
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share all of your research materials, from PDFs to websites. Northwestern students, faculty, and staff receive free unlimited storage.
The Writing Place is Northwestern’s center for peer writing consultations. Whether you are writing a paper for a class, composing application letters and essays, or working on some other writing project, a Writing Place consultant can help you at any stage of the writing process, from talking about ideas, to developing a plan, to revising and editing a draft.
The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements.