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Writing Research Papers
The Researchpaper.com site is a comprehensive sites which covers prewriting strategies, search tips, and revising. It even has a research paper chat room!

What is a research paper? provides a helpful description of important features of research papers.

Writing a Research Paper, a web page produced by the University of Alberta Library, presents information on how to write research papers.

Sources for Research
EBSCOHost provides an online database of articles from periodicals.  Since you can have articles emailed to you, you may never have to hunt down articles in the library again. All you need is a Tucson/Pima County Public Library card or a PCC student card.

WebCite helps you search for online sources in literary and cultural studies. They have over 2200 links! And, best of all, they're free!

The Electric Library performs searches of articles, television and radio transcripts, and other material in their archives. This is a great place to start with research for a project. The Electric Library is a subscription service, which charges for use. They charge only for downloading articles, so even if you don't sign up for a trial membership, you can still use the service for free searches, and then later retrieve those sources from your local library.

DejaNews is an efficient search of newsgroup databases. Enter in your keyword, and you'll be directed to archived postings from newsgroups on your subject. You can also use DejaNews to find newsgroups to subscribe to.

The Hippocrates Project at NYU provides a Medical Humanities database, searchable by keyword, which lists titles in literature, arts, and medicine. This is a great source for finding titles of stories, novels, or poems dealing with medicine.

CataList, of L-Soft International, and Liszt provide search engines for listservs and email lists.