Welcome to Research Central, a collection of instructional modules and resources to accompany research textbooks from Addison Wesley Longman. The following is a short introduction to the features of this Instructor section, which is still under construction, and then, following that, introductions to the main features of the Student section of the site.

In this Instructor section of the site you will find:

Web Destinations

We offer an extensive collections of links to Web resources for instructors.

In the Student Section of the site you will find:

Source Evaluation Exercise

This Source Evaluation Exercise (16 pages, 6200 words) is an introduction to research source evaluation, an important aspect of the research process. It discusses the rhetorical characteristics of research sources and helps students learn to situate sources in the sources' larger rhetorical contexts.

Web Design Exercise

An important first step in learning to design usable and effective Web projects is understanding the basic components of Web sites and the fundamental problems of site design. This Web Design Exercise module (17 pages, 6000 words) introduces design issues by analyzing the components of Web sites, linking directly to some example sites and page mock-ups.

Gallery of Student Research

The Gallery of Student Research is an archive of researched Web sites from student authors at colleges and universities across the country. Most sites in the gallery include links back to the class sites of the instructors who directed the projects. The sites included in the gallery are interesting by themselves, but they also show what kinds of work students are producing for the Web in their writing intensive courses.

Web Destinations

We offer an extensive collection of Web Destinations to Web resources for Students.

Web Page Templates

Students can download ready-made Web Page Templates to guide the design of their own researched Web sites. The templates are designed so that students can use them as they are, but students are encouraged to take the templates apart to see how they are coded, redesign them, or use them to test design strategies.