Handbook Of Research Documentation Styles Apa And Mla

What is a difference between a research paper and personal essay? Personal essay is subjective in nature. It is based on one’s experience or response. Research paper is objective. It is based on previous researches. It is based on facts and data. It is scientific. When one starts his/her journey from known to unknown, s/he may wonder whether to use data from other sources. Books, journals and other printed material or online sources on internet are one of the most popular to be used by any researcher. Researcher must use secondary data and review pervious researches. S/he should not plagiarise but use necessary data and information from other sources. One of the prominent difference between personal essay and research paper is research paper have citations and personal essay does not have citations.
One of the important aspect of research is it should be verifiable. It can become verifiable only when proper documentation is done.
Documentation is one of the key aspects of research report or research paper. Unless the research is properly documented, it does not serve any purpose.
There are various styles of documentation of research. MLA and APA are very popular among those styles. Present book, Handbook of Research Documentation Styles MLA and APA gives fair idea about MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and Publication Manual of American Psychological Association. It also compares 7th edition of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and 6th edition of The Publication Manual of American Psychological Association styles. These are the research document styles very popular among the researches of humanities and social science. The book will be helpful to the graduate and postgraduate students, teachers, scholars, researchers, academicians. The research work will be helpful in documenting sources both in humanities and social science.