Research and Documentation

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Research and Documentation

• Test Review

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Plagiarism

• To take ideas, wordings, terms, arguments, or
  anothers line of thinking and present it as your
  own without acknowledgement

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Summarize

• To condense the significant facts of a passage
  (to put it into your own words)

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Paraphrase

• To restate what someone else has said in
  approximately the same number of words (keeping
  technical terms and phrases)

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Direct Quote

• To copy an authors exactly as they are written
  and giving the author credit

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Thesis Statement

• The sentence or group of sentences that state the
  main idea or purpose of the paper
• Characteristics
• Main idea of paper
• Stated in introduction
• Specific

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Topic Sentence

• The sentence that states the main idea of a
  specific paragraph.

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Note Cards

• Include
• Source letter
• Descriptive title
• Notes
• The page number from where information was
  gathered

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Purpose of the Source Letter

• Corresponds to the source of the bibliography
  card and it keeps your notes organized.

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What is Missing?
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What does not belong?
Hitler Facts
Smith, Robert
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Which has the correct format?
A
Hornberger, Ted. Franklin. Encyclopedia
Brittanica. 1995 ed.
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Bibliography-book
Hornberger, Ted. Franklin. Encyclopedia
Brittanica. 1995 ed.
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Correct bibliography entry for a book

• Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York Laurel- Leaf
  Books, 1993.
• Author. What they Wrote. Place of Publication
  Publishing Company, the year.

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Correct Bib. Entry for an encyclopedia

• Bush, George. The World Book Encyclopedia .
  Library Deluxe Edition. P. 1425.
• Title of the Article. The name of the
  Encyclopedia. The Edition. The page Number.

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Important Facts

• Bibliography Entries for Books
• Titles are always underlined.
• Bibliography Entries for Encyclopedias
• Titles of articles are always in quotation marks
• For All Types of Entries
• Punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and order
  of information is highly important.
• The lines after the first are always indented.

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Internal Documentation

• Should be present at the end of the sentence
  containing the information used from a source.

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What does internal documentation look like?

• It should have a set of parenthesis, the authors
  last name and the page where the information was
  gathered from.
• (authors last name and page number)

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Where can you find the information for the bib.
card?

• The very first page of the source
• THE TITLE PAGE

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How to write a paper

• Step 1
• Visit the library to find sources
• Step 2
• Write the Bibliography cards
• Step 3
• Write the Note cards
• Step 4
• Write the Rough Draft
• Step 5
• Revise the paper