Research Paper Guide
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CONTENTS

The School District of Springfield Township "Research Guide" is designed to help students master the preparation of research projects. The formats used in this guide are fashioned after the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Questions not answered by this guide should be directed to the teacher assigning the research project.

Originally written by
The Springfield High School
English Department, 1991-92

Revised by
Joyce Valenza,
Springfield High School Library
December, 2003

Library Staff
Joyce Valenza, Librarian
Michele Kennedy
Jo Ann Supplee
Language Arts Department, 2003-2004 
  • Carol H. Rohrbach, Coordinator
  • Sonia Andre-Borges
  • Eric Gershman
  • Michele Mazurek
  • Ken Rodoff
  • Loretta Shirley
  • Christine Settino
  • David Cohn
  • Kristen Henderson
  • Kathryn Maher
  • Susan Carabba


More of our school's handouts and lessons are available at:  http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/jvles.html

Click here for our MLA Style Guide

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Joanna Connor for sharing her title page, to Lisa Ngov for her acknowledgements page and to Ted Webster for sharing sample work

Works Cited

"Information Power: The Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning." AASL Homepage. 2000. ALA. 16 June 2000. .

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th edition. New York: MLA, 1999

"MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web" MLA Online. 1999. MLA. 16 June 2000.


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