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Chapter 28 dealt with organization for writing a research paper.  It offered a couple of good ideas on the matter I thought, but there are definitely alternate options for starting a paper that are not talked about in this chapter.  Two methods that  particularly liked are the Expert method and the Chaining method.  Both of these allow the writer to insert his or her own opinion into the paper and allows their ideas to flow and get deeper into the subject.  A research paper grows very boring if all it contains is the facts, without any emotion or backing up of the facts.  Another key of chapter 28 is the bit on primary and secondary sources.  As a journalism major, I have to read a lot of papers and it is quite obvious that a lot of writers even ion college don't know what a primary and a secondary source is.  Most writers only include secondary sources and totally forget about the very important primary sources.

Near the end of the chapter, Bias comes up as it should.  It is very hard to find a research paper that does not have a a bias, because papers without bias' are boring and almost pointless to read.  A problem a lot of people have with a bias is that they forget to include the opposite side of the argument and just overwhelm the reader with facts and ideologies supporting the side that they chose