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Gale Free: How to write a research paper

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Discusses the merits of ditching the traditional research paper in favor of blogs. Some excellent points.

Onscreen vs paper reading

"The most important difference [between paper and screen reading] is when the text becomes digital. Then it loses its physical dimension, which is special to the book, and the reader loses his feeling of totality."

"The most important difference [between paper and screen reading] is when the text becomes digital. Then it loses its physical dimension, which is special to the book, and the reader loses his feeling of totality."

Database of policy research papers

"Citelighter is an easy-to-use academic research tool that utilizes a community of students to help you find valuable content, automatically cite sources, and provide an organizational framework for writing your papers."

With Diigo Outliners, students can digitally organize all of their resources into an outline to later guide the creation of their final research paper or project.

"E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages." I suggest you try this article in Print Friendly.

Digital Pencil research steps

Report from Turnitin.com about what sources students are citing in their research projects based on an analysis of 9 million student papers.

Research foundation paper that shows how school libraries help students learn -- and improve test scores.

Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research  Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."

Debate on traditional vs. digital reading continues.

A look at linear time and information: from the occurrence of an event, era, social movement or discovery, ...to the documentation of evidence relating to this event, era, social movement, etc.to how the evidence is disseminatedand how researchers (and term paper writers) can find this documentation

Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Unpaywall.org lets searchers access full-text research papers from its index of 10 million legally loaded, open-access articles.

Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children Learning: Is there an app for that? Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play and Literacy Learning? iLearn: A Content Analysis of the iTunes App Store's Education Section White Paper: The Digital Promise: Transforming Learning with Innovative Uses of Technology

Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits by Robert F. Coughlin Free Download, Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits by Robert F.