Writing Your Research Paper

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Writing Your Research Paper

• required components
• grading

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Your paper needs to have

• A cover page/title, your name, word count
• A research paper that has at least 5 well
  developed paragraphs, and is word processed
  double spaced 12pt. Font
• Paper must have problem/solution content that was
  set up in the outline I went over
• Paper must give credit to info sources through
  source citations

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MORE stuff your paper needs

• SEE Mrs. Janneys resource sheet to see how to do
  source citations!!!!
• Works Cited page
• This page must have ALL needed facts about your
  es!! NOT just URLs!!
• Again!

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GRADING METHOD

• 1 ARE ALL COMPONENTS THERE?
• 2 Is the format correct? (papers done in
  10-pt. font or weird font, or in pencil, or in
  nonstandard colors will not be graded/must be
  re-done!!
• 3 Error deductions every error in spelling,
  grammar, capitalization and punctuation counts
  off 1 point

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More grading info
COVER PAGE VALUE 10 POINTS 5 PARAGRAPH
RESEARCH PAPER 300 MLA STYLE WORKS CITED PAGE
30 PTS. 5 PARENTHETICAL SOURCE CITATIONS 50
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SEE NEXT SLIDE FOR AN EXAMPLE OF A COVER PAGE
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The Problem of DiabetesbyJoe Jones1,500
words
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See next slidefor example of a Works Cited page
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Works Cited page rules

• Internet sources need author(if given), page
  title website title site sponsor date you got
  your info URL
• For magazines author article title mag title
  date of issue page numbers
• For books author book title city pub.
  Company year published
• Put them in correct order punctuate them
  correctly!

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How to cite sources in your paper

• Use source citations, which are also called
  parenthetical citations, because
• When you do them right, the info is enclosed
• Inside parentheses.
• Use these whenever you quote give statistics
  mention info you got from your sources
• See next slide for an example

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• Notice how credit was given to research resources
  on the previous slide
• The FIRST time a source is mentioned, you should
  give the author and source of the info, and
  mention the page number(if the info was in a
  format that used pages, such as a book or
  magazine)
• The SECOND time you bring up a statistic or quote
  or fact from that source, you can end the
  sentence with parentheses that enclose authors
  last name (if an author was given) and page
  number
• When doing a source citation within your paper
  for an internet source, you should use
  parentheses, and enclose the web articles author
  (if one was given) OR web page title, and the
  word internet.
• Look back at the previous slide notice all the
  places where parentheses pop up notice the info
  within them notice the punctuation used, and
  where these are placed.

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Your paper will also be returned ungraded if it
lacks a Works Cited pagedone in MLA style
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Your paper will be returned to you
ungradedifYou did not cover the
FIVEREQUIREDSECTIONS
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Save time and stress!Do your paper right the
first time!
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GOOD LUCK!
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