For more than 30 years, Staples High School (Westport, Connecticut) juniors have undertaken a major research paper. Their English teachers supervise this project-based unit and get feedback about the preparation students feel they have gotten in research and in writing. Students used to be taught to use notebooks, paper, pencil, and index cards for research and to transfer their material to a word processing program for the writing of the paper. The project is evergreen, but the research methods and materials have become outdated.