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Documenting Research
Objectives
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Documentation involves providing readers with accurate and sufficient information about the sources you use in your research writing. In this chapter, documentation is approached as an ethical obligation: the writer is obliged to be completely clear about his or her reliance upon research sources. The writer owes this obligation to the sources used in the research project as well as to the readers or users of the final product of the research. The chapter begins with a brief overview of the most common documentation systems: MLA (Modern Language Association), for most papers in the humanities; APA (American Psychological Association), for most papers in the social sciences; the footnote style (from the Chicago Manual of Style), for papers in the humanities, social sciences, and some business-related disciplines; and CBE (Council of Biology Editors), for most papers in the sciences. This section also includes detailed information about citing Internet and other electronic sources. Students can use this chapter to address most college-level concerns regarding appropriate documentation of sources, in many disciplines.
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