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Another reason Questia is helpful is in the books that provide knowledge for personal purposes, rather than just for scholarly substance. There's a book on Questia that gives some advice on writing academic papers:Publish, Don't Perish: The Scholar's Guide to Academic Writing and Publishing by Joseph M. Moxley; Praeger Publishers, 1992.One of the sections I'm reading now that is good is "How to Write Effective Introductions and Conclusions". For example,
...if you are not subtle about your transitional sentences, you writing style may be judged as sophomoric by readers. For example, filler phrases like "The purposes of this research study were a, b, c," or "In the following, I discuss the following issues: a, b, c," are so overused, so mechanical and inorganic, that they call attention to your writing instead of your ideas. Thus, if you sense that the reader can follow the flow of your ideas, then don't worry about transitional phrases.
So anyway, I thought it was a good book to throw out there.
