My book on researching and writing a paper -- working smart, not hard, has been published. You can find it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Steps-Researching-Writing-Paper/dp/193555168X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287328793&sr=1-1.
The hardest part of writing a research paper is your topic -- all students hate narrowing a topic. However, if you can get together 4-6 specific keywords, and use most search engine or database advanced search feature, you can cut your research time down to a few hours versus days! For instance, if you wanted to do a paper on playing games online and addiction, these may be some of the keywords you might search -- "internet addiction" AND "online games" AND "compulsive behavior" AND recovery. Notice the use of quotation marks and the word AND capitalized. This is part of Boolean searching -- this will be discussed in another posting.
Try these words in a couple of search engines and library databases and see what you come up with!
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