New and updated features of this title NEW: Ties chapter content to WPA Outcomes in the objectives listed at the start of each section. NEW: Expands coverage of working with sources and evaluating them for integrity, relevance, and credibility (new sections in Parts 3 and 4), and features current MLA guidelines for source documentation, per MLA Handbook, 8/e. NEW: Discusses why sources are used (e.g., to provide a definition or specific argument, to set up a problem, or to spark one's own thinking). NEW: Includes additional instruction on multimodal research projects and how to compose them. REVISED: Adds guidance and models for arranging visual texts and oral presentations in Part 5 and addresses visual style and style for oral presentations in Part 7 (includes sample oral presentation slides based on a student research project that is featured recurringly throughout the text). NEW: Expands coverage of design and presentation to include planning for academic projects and how to consider design and presentation from the outset of an assignment (Part 1).