planning and research

Planning

Finding Topic

Evaluate Possible Topics

Research

Initiating Research

Starting an outline

Evaluating Available Sources

Relevance

Reliability

Taking Notes

Prewriting

Outline

Manage sources

Finding Sources

Databases

Encyclopedias

Statistical

WebBased

Government

Multimodal

Starting a Paper

Review the research material

Organizing Ideas

defending the main idea

presenting the stock issues

refuting an opposing view

ordering material for emphasis

finding the middle ground