Cover: The Bedford Researcher with 2021 MLA Update, 7th Edition by Mike Palmquist

The Bedford Researcher with 2021 MLA Update

Seventh  Edition©2021  Mike Palmquist

About

Research with confidence

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

The academic conversations you join and the challenges you face have never been more complex. The Bedford Researcher provides the tools to confront this complexity with thoughtfulness and integrity.  Written to help you strengthen your ability to understand, assess, and contribute to ongoing conversations about important issues, the seventh edition responds to the challenges of an expanding variety of information and the critical importance of evaluating sources  and offers the practical help you need to research and write with confidence.

Table of Contents

PREFACE FOR INSTRUCTORS
INTRODUCTION FOR WRITERS

I Joining the Conversation
1 Getting Started
2 Exploring and Focusing
3 Developing Your Research Question

II Working with Sources
4 Reading Critically and Actively
5 Assessing and Evaluating Sources
6 Taking Notes
7 Engaging with Information, Ideas, and Arguments
8 Managing Information
9 Avoiding Plagiarism

III Collecting Information
10 Searching for Information
11 Collecting Information with Field Research

IV Creating Your Document
12 Developing Your Thesis Statement
13 Developing and Organizing Your Argument
14 Drafting
15 Using Sources Effectively
16 Designing Documents
17 Revising and Editing
18 Presenting Your Work

V Documenting Sources
19 Understanding Documentation Systems
20 Using MLA Style
21 Using APA Style
22 Using Chicago Style
23 Using CSE Style

INDEX

Mike Palmquist

Mike Palmquist is a professor of English and a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he has also served as Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation and Director of the Writing Center. He is recognized internationally for his work in writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing. He is the founding editor of the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu), the leading site for communication across the curriculum, and is the author of numerous articles and essays on writing across the curriculum and writing and teaching with technology. He served as an at-large member of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, which named him a Distinguished Fellow in 2021, and is a trustee of the University Press of Colorado and a member of the editorial boards of several journals. In 2004, he received the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, which recognizes "exemplary scholarship and professional service to the field of computers and writing." In 2006, the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Composition named him Outstanding Technology Innovator. He served as chair of the National Council of Teachers of English College Section Steering Committee and as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee from 2009 to 2011. He also served as the chair of the NCTE College Section Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty. He is the author of Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers; In Conversation: A Writer’s Guidebook; and The Bedford Researcher.