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The definitive research paper guide, Writing from Sources combines a traditional and practical approach to the research process with the latest information on electronic research and presentation. Step-by-step instruction in a clear, non-intimidation writing style, takes the reader from the selection and narrowing of a topic, through research, note taking, planning, drafting, revising, to preparation of the finished document.
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Good condition...fast delivery.......2007-05-12
This was not mine and should have been removed from my review area. The book was returned.
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Research paper.......2005-08-22
The book is very helpful to those students being busy on the thesis like me.
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Lester & Lester, Jr's Writing Research Papers, 10th Ed........2002-12-16
I've written both MLA and APA research papers, and now I teach research writing. THIS IS THE ONE. I use a textbook (usually focusing on Argument/Rhetoric) and Lester's as the reference. It provides a wealth of solid advice, examples, outlines, guides, visuals and Web site addresses. Even though this as an English course, practically none of my students are English majors... so why teach MLA only when they'll have to use APA (social sciences) or CBE (science majors) in the not too distant future? This book addresses that and includes CMS (Humanities, Fine Arts). The appendix is EXCELLENT with the locations of sources for multiple disciplines ranging from Anthropology to Women's Studies.
If your not an English major (and most aren't) and you want to learn research writing from source material to presentation style, this is the reference book.
Writing Research Papers... -- Entertainmentopia Review.......2002-11-14
This was required as my text book for my English 102 class at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, so even if I didn't like the book I would have had to buy it.
As it stands, the book gives a wealth of information needed on the two primary writing styles, MLA and APA. While the book gives ample time to each of them most English teachers, unless they have something physically wrong with them, like to use MLA style which is easier for students to write in.
The book is spiral bound which makes using it easier because you can open it to a page and there is no nasty crease, and you can fold it back when your turn the page to keep it small on your desk, especially if you have alot of notes.
The only thing to be said is that, since it is primarily used as a college text book, it falls apart faster than a Ford Truck. Pages will rip out during use and the pages themselves are very thin and prone to ripping.
You more than likely don't have any choice on this book as it will be required for class, just take good car of it and it should work out good enough to get some money back when you trade it to the bookstore.
--Erich Becker liked English 102, and 101...
Would you like MLA or APA with that?.......2001-05-28
"Writing Research Papers: A complete Guide" is essential to those who write these papers often. The first 130 pages serve as a basic review of Information and rot Data collection mixed with organizational schemes, parallelism and whatnot. The last 250 pages discuss in detail Modern language Association (MLA) format and American Psychological Association (APA) format research papers. I personally recommend that you buy the tabbed book, while it is more expensive; it provides easy access to the very difficult APA Reference page material and data. In all honesty, the only real importance to this book is the APA materials, as MLA is intrinsically easy, and most people who pick up this book have already dealt with the basic material, which is at the front of the book. This book offers some use to the more experienced research paper writers, and exponentially more to those with less experience.
Lester in the High School.......2001-03-30
I have used Lester's works in an accelerated High School Class on Research and Writing. With very few exceptions, this book will prepare the High School Senior for Writing College Papers. It especially hones in on the MLA and APA methods of formatting papers and gives a brief description for each of the following: Chicago Turabian, Numbers and CBE forms for writing. This is a MUST book for highly motivated seniors who have a firm direction.
research paper.......2000-06-14
need to know how to do a research papel!
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The Research Process explains, models, and analyzes the recursive process of conducting research and writing research papers. The text - along with the dedicated website and free student CD-ROM - provides exceptional guidance on writing substantive research papers using print and electronic sources and emphasizes the enjoyment and rewards that research writing offers.
Book Description
The definitive research paper guide, Writing from Sources combines a traditional and practical approach to the research process with the latest information on electronic research and presentation.
Step-by-step instruction in a clear, non-intimidation writing style, takes the reader from the selection and narrowing of a topic, through research, note taking, planning, drafting, revising, to preparation of the finished document.
Introductory Composition.
Book Description
The definitive research paper guide, Writing from Sources combines a traditional and practical approach to the research process with the latest information on electronic research and presentation.
Step-by-step instruction in a clear, non-intimidation writing style, takes the reader from the selection and narrowing of a topic, through research, note taking, planning, drafting, revising, to preparation of the finished document.
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Complete Paper-Writing Guide!!.......2002-11-25
I am a sophomore in high school, and our English teacher recommended this book as our sole source for writing research papers for her class. I found every question answered in this book. My mother has gone back to college to finish her degree and she also uses this book as a guide. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings–one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy “to stand with that of the best journalists and writers” (New York Times Book Review).
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army’s onslaught on Hitler’s empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians.
Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germany’s cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle.
The crucial final months of the twentieth century’s greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle.
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Very Good.......2007-09-05
Insightful, thought provoking overview of the horror of the last nine months of WWII in Europe. While I couldn't put this book down and the assessment and theories of this time were excellent, I did find the work somewhat disjointed and awkwardly written at times. Overall, however, it is a very rewarding history that offers new perceptions and challenges old conceptions. Well worth your time.
Falling apart as I read..........2007-08-11
This book has a profound view of the 2nd WW from Normandy eastward, I am enjoying it alot and it is easy to understand and follow (even though it jumps about in time). I love books and often re-read them at later dates. I have bought many books from Amazon, and have been very pleased. But this is the 1st book that has the problem of clumps of pages falling off as I read. They separate from the binding every dozen pages or so... Guess I won't be able to re-read this one! Anyone else with this defect? This book would get 5 stars from me were it not for this problem...
Hastings does the end of World War II.......2007-07-08
There are two main theories with regards to the American/Allied victory in World War II in the West. One holds that the Germans were brilliant soldiers, overwhelmed by a torrent of shells from artillery, airplanes, and tanks, and the other holds that the American army, starting out very green, gained experience and fortitude as the campaign extended in 1944-45. The first version is one that has held sway, for the most part, since the 1950s. It's based, in part, on the interrogations done by the U.S. Army at the end of the war, where they talked with German officers about the course of the war they had just lost. Most of the Germans, to hear them tell it, didn't really think they'd lost the war. If anything, they'd won, and been thwarted by Hitler, the Soviets, and American factories. The latter view, that the American army improved during the war, and wasn't as bad as these defeated German officers thought, is more modern, and has been put forward by a group of scholars, many of them U.S. Army officers.
Max Hastings is a British historian, and he holds with the older, more German viewpoint. One nuance is that he holds the British army in similar contempt, for the most part. Instead, he believes that the Soviets were the only ones who exhibited a proper amount of aggressiveness, though he does also mention repeatedly that the Soviet method of war resulted in their army suffering many more casualties than the American/British method.
This attitude colors pretty much the whole of Armageddon, Hastings' book recounting the campaigns in France, Poland, and Germany during the last winter and spring of World War II. Hastings is more nuanced than most historians when he speaks in this vein: he spends a lot of time telling you how good of a coalition-manager Eisenhower was, while denigrating his skill as a strategist. He also is refreshingly aware of Montgomery's shortcomings, personality-wise, and his inability to diplomatically get along with his American counterparts. Patton doesn't come in for the praise he often gets: the author notes the Hammelburg tragedy and denounces him pretty thoroughly for it, among other things, and winds up saying that he showed "flashes of brilliance" but wasn't an exceptional commander.
Hastings is a good writer, and for the general reader interested in World War II this is a worthwhile book. For the specialist be aware: the author quotes Martin van Creveld and other historians you've probably already read, and his interpretations, to say the least, are sometimes controversial. While I agree with his assessment of the Arnhem battle (he says that if Browning did say they'd gone "a bridge too far", then he didn't understand the concept of the battle: without the last bridge, the whole thing was worthless) his verdict on Zhukov (the best general of the war) is eccentric at best, especially since he then proceeds to tell you that his crossing of the Oder in 1945 was a disaster.
I've always been dubious of authors who use the German view of the war more than is appropriate, and I think Hastings is a bit guilty of this. It's why the book doesn't get five stars from me, because otherwise this is a good book, and I enjoyed it.
Imrpessive! A sober reminder of what war is about........2007-06-12
Max Hastings is a renowned author on World War II subjects, and especially on the campaigns of the Western Front. This book is a rich and valuable account of the last year of the war, startimg from September 1944, directly after the Falaise Gap actions and continuing until the end of the war in May 1945. He achieves a splendid mix of great battles and hundreds of personal stories, being academic and popular history at the same time which is something really difficult. Many personal accounts from civilians to soldiers are sprinkled throughout the chapters, and thus effectively remind the reader of the human tragedy taking place as the Third Reich falls around them. From the concentration camp prisoners to the Dutch suffering from hunger and cold, to the bomber crews flying on dangerous missions, to the inhabitants of bombed-out German cities to the East Prussians being brutalized by the advancing Red Army seeking revenge, Hastings has included everything possible in this monumental account.
The readers who want to learn more about the titanic battles of that period will get some fresh perspectives and some hard to find statistics, but Hastings' aim is not simply to tell the military history of that era. He focuses rather on some interesting and straightforward questions, like why did it take almost a year after D-Day for the allies to finally defeat Nazi Germany. Hastings' criticism on the Allied side is sincere and sometimes harsh. He accuses the Western Allies for lack of aggressive leadership despite overwhelming superiority of resources, for a nasty relationship between the U.S. and the Brits, for significant waste of materials, for waging the wrong battles (like that in Huertgen Forrest) and for an absolute reliance upon artillery which very often slowed advance to a crowl. He praises the German Army for its operational and tactical skills and for the superior weapons it employed, but also acknowledges the advantages that the Soviets enjoyed due to their brutal methods and complete disregard for human and material losses.
Of course this is a history about a war and the vast scale of suffering makes the narrative powerful and grim. The text is supported by some good but general maps and many black and white photographs, some of them very dramatic indeed. I would say that although this book is massive in appearance and may seem too much detailed for some readers, it doesn't offer really new conclusions for anyone who has studied this subject thoroughly. It just concentrates every available (and interesting) piece of information in a sinlge large account which it reads quickly and smoothly because it is generally very engrossing.
Loved reading this book!.......2007-05-29
This sensational book is full of details, both personal and military, and does not get bogged down in too much of the latter. It was an addictive reading experience for me and I must admit I have never read a book about war before.
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By late 1944, with the Allies having successfully landed in France in June 1944 and subsequently expanded their bridgehead to encompass much of Northern France and Belgium in the west and with the Russians inexorably advancing westwards, World War II in Europe was rapidly approaching its finale. However, as evinced by the Ardennes campaign in the west, whilst Germany was facing ultimate defeat, like a wounded animal, it was still capable of inflicting major losses on Allied forces. In the east, it appeared that every inch of soil was defended to the last and some of the most bitter fighting of the entire war occurred during its final six months on the Eastern Front, as the Germans doggedly sought to defend the territory it had conquered in 1940 and that of its erstwhile Allies, such as Hungary. For the Germans, it was not just that the loss of this territory would bring the dreaded Red Army to the very gates of-and later into-Berlin but also it was these areas that much of the raw material required to sustain the war effort was derived. Despite the efforts of the remnants of Hitler's once great Wehrmacht, the Russian army proved unstoppable; sheer weight of numbers and quantity of materiel ensured that the best defence that the Germans could offer proved inadequate and, by May 1945, the fight had reached the very centre of Berlin. Armageddon had literally reached the heart of Hitler's Reich.
In Armageddon Ost, Nik Cornish examines the final six months of the war on the Eastern Front. Describing events in detail he records the gradual, but inexorable, advance of the Red Army towards ultimate victory. With a narrative drawn from a variety of sources, including first-hand accounts from those who actually fought in the war, the book records the movement of the Red Army through Hungary and the Balkans, through Poland and, ultimately through Germany itself.
Illustrated throughout with a superb range of photographs, many drawn from Russian archives and never previously published, the book is a sobering account of the destruction of this final phase of the war in the East.
With the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe having been marked during 2005, publication of Armageddon Ost is opportune; it will be required reading for all those with an interest in the history of World War II and of the campaigns in the east that were ultimately to prove so costly for the Third Reich.
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Title: Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945.(Book review)
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