Welcome to the student section of the Online Course Companion. This section supports student research in 5 main areas:

• Model Research Projects

Model Research Projects provides student-written projects to model the stages of research in four areas: current events, social science, science and technology, and literature. Each paper traces the development of a project through three key research phases: reading, networking and writing, using student-generated research to illustrate. To explore Model Research Projects further, click on Model Research Projects above, or on any of the four areas in the navigation bar to your left.

• Research Guide

The Research Guide provides exercises designed to familiarize you with the research process from exploring a topic and collecting information to browsing the Web and keeping a bibliography. To enter the Research Guide, click on that section in the drop-down menu above.

• Links

Approximately 60 annotated Links are also included to provide you with easy access to key research resources such as library catalogs, serials and periodicals, and Web search engines and directories. To access Links, click on that section in the drop-down menu above.

• Citation Manager

Allows you quickly and easily to locate model citations for individual types of references. To access the Citation Manager, click on that section in the drop-down menu above.

• Exercises

The Exercises section, organized by part and then by chapter, offers you the opportunity to practice what you are learning. To find Exercises, click on the drop down menu above.