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Research Paper

Research Paper. Summaries QA 374-6. Find the main points or events Rewrite into your own words However, do NOT put in your own opinion. Sample Summary.

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  1. Research Paper

  2. Summaries QA 374-6 • Find the main points or events • Rewrite into your own words • However, do NOT put in your own opinion.

  3. Sample Summary • Wes Moore's father passed away suddenly from a curable infection that was overlooked by the hospital. His mother was smart and sued the hospital; however, she gave the money away to train paramedics when she should have kept the settlement to help raise the children.

  4. Wes Moore's father passed away suddenly from a curable infection that was overlooked by the hospital. His mother was smart and sued the hospital; however, she gave the money away to train paramedics when she should have kept the settlement to help raise the children.

  5. More In-depth Information Requirements: • 7-10 pages (not including works cited) • MLA or APA formatting • Everything must be cited correctly (paraphrase, summary, and quotations) • Works cited/References page and in-text citations • Direct quotations can't be more than 20% of the paper. • At least 7 sources including academic book, journal, and newspaper or other periodical. No more than 2 websites. • Evidence of orderly research process • Evidence of orderly writing process

  6. Writing Stages • Choosing a topic • Establishing a thesis • Finding and evaluating evidence (notecards) • Organizing evidence (outline) • Writing the paper (rough draft) • Editing and revising the paper (peer editing, reverse outline) • Perfecting the final product (final draft)

  7. Choosing a Topic Are you curious enough about this topic to cohabit with it for the next couple months? What do you already know? What do you want to find out? Can you easily find good scholarly sources that you need for the paper? Does the topic fall within your professor's requirements?

  8. Journalism Questions • 2c QA 15 • Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

  9. Avoid topics that are Too broad: Civil Rights in America (needs to be more specific) Too controversial: Abortion Not controversial enough: Drunk Driving Too new or too current: Tennessee floods Too obscure: Tattoos in the Coast Guard

  10. Topic Develops into Thesis Statement • 2d QA 17 • States the subject • The side of the argument that your paper will align with (focus) • reason(s), justification(s), "because"/"due to"

  11. Notecards and Notetaking Requirements: 3x5 cards Photocopies of quoted sections Photocopies of summarized sections Photocopies of paraphrased sections

  12. Notetaking How to decide what is important: • Look for main ideas • Striking details • expert opinions • factual data Look for information that both supports and denies your thesis.

  13. Example Source # 3 Harper Lee based the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird on Capote, and most of the childhood details were the same.

  14. Be careful • Some people like to take notes by cutting and pasting bits of articles from the computer. Make sure that you document those, so you do not accidentally plagiarize. • If you do that, try marking the notes in a different color. • Turnitin.com will help you catch those mistakes.

  15. Recognizing Scholarly Sources We'll get more on this during the quarter. Basics: Usually "Peer-reviewed" Field specific vocabulary Will have a bibliography, works cited, or reference page.

  16. Purpose of the source Scholarly or professional sources wish primarily to advance knowledge or to report on developments in their field. Usually original research or a new presentation of older work. The audience is professionals, academics, researchers and students in universities or specialized programs. Payment?

  17. Credentials of author The author needs to be a scholar and an expert in the field. If the source does not name the author, then it is unusable.

  18. Popular sources usually written by professional writers or journalists that deal regularly with a variety of subjects. research time is short because of lead time usually do not have a degree in the subject rely on the research of others for information

  19. Scientists Learn to Breed Alcoholic Animals February 21, 1999 By Eric Newhouse   Tribune Projects Editor Scientists are learning a lot about alcoholism by watching lab animals get drunk. They have discovered that alcoholism isn't just a human weakness — it can be induced in monkeys, rats and mice by changing the chemical levels in their brains or by adding stress to their lives. And scientists now can prove that the disease is genetic. They can breed rats that crave alcohol, are indifferent to it, or hate it. When U.S. Department of Health and Human Services researchers set up a system in which rats were required to press a lever to get a drink, alcohol-craving rats were 10 times more likely to do so http://www.vat19.com/blog/2008/08/

  20. Conservationists Hail Hilton Drunk Elephants Appeal Associated Press Tuesday 13 November 2007 Conservationists today hailed the socialite Paris Hilton, who was convicted of drink driving earlier this year, for apparently trying to highlight the problem of binge-drinking elephants in north-eastern India. Activists said the celebrity endorsement would raise awareness of the plight of pachyderms that got drunk on farmers' homemade rice beer and went on the rampage. Last month, six wild elephants that broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya were electrocuted after discovering and drinking the potent brew before uprooting an electricity pylon. "There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away," Hilton was quoted as saying in Tokyo last week according to a report posted on the World Entertainment News Network website. "And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad. "The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them." Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images Conservationists

  21. Scholarly Resource "Animal Modes in Academic Research"

  22. Works Cited (MLA) "Conservationists Hail Hilton Drunk Elephants Appeal." Guardian. N.p., 13 Nov. 2007. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. Newhouse, Eric. "Scientists Learn to Breed Alcoholic Animals." Great Falls Tribune. N.p., 19 Feb. 1999. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. Tabacoff, Boris, and Paula L. Hoffman. "Animal Modes in Academic Research." Alcohol Research and Health 24.3 (2002): 77-84. EBSCO. Web. 20 Aug 2010.

  23. References (APA) • Conservationists Hail Hilton Drunk Elephants Appeal. (2007, October 13). Guardian. Retrieved from Guardian database. • Newhouse, E. (1999, August 19). Scientists Learn to Breed Alcoholic Animals. Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved from Great Falls Tribune database. • Tabacoff, B., & Hoffman, P. (2002, Fall). Animal Modes in Academic Research. Alcohol Research and Health, 24(3), 77-84. Retrieved from EBSCO database.

  24. General Research Types of sources • Primary • Secondary • Tertiary

  25. Primary source • Direct, "First hand" • Autobiography, interview transcripts • Lit: the author's original book or poem • History: letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts • Science: results of original research, an article relating a survey, study, or experiment conducted.

  26. Secondary source • Analysis of primary source • articles, responses, rebuttals • Lit: the criticism • History: anything written after the event is a secondary source.  • Sciences: any analysis or summaries of research done by others

  27. Tertiary source Collection of primary and secondary sources. • Almanacs • Chronologies • Directories • Fact books • Guidebooks • Manuals • Textbooks

  28. Differences

  29. Formatting and general research Citations MLA EN Chapter 7; QA Chapter 35 APA QA Chapter 36,Envision p. 212 General research information EN Chapter 5; QA Chapter 32

  30. Topic Your assignment is for the research paper: • Choose a sociological problem in today's US society that interests you, write an analysis of the condition and defend a possible solution or a way to improve the situation.

  31. What is a condition or element? Medical: Autism, Mental Illness, Drug Addiction Education: Higher Education and Achievement Gender: Teen Pregnancy (also Medical) Law: Musical Censorship Ethnicity: Racial Profiling, Immigration Examples of questions . . .

  32. Research Paper Topic/Thesis Proposal Generator: What are you interested in? Scan through magazines Scan through your books Talk to your family, friends, and co-workers. Example: I want to write about the changing roles of fathers.

  33. Turnitin.com • 110-07 CRN: 80819 MWF 10:55-12:15 • Class ID-- 4336619 • Class Enrollment Password-- jellybean

  34. Turnitin.com • 110-11 CRN:80823 MWF 1:45-3:05 • Class ID-- 4336629 • Class Enrollment Password—jellybean

  35. Class Website • gaumond110.weebly.com • worksheet 1

  36. Out of Class Assignment • Due: Monday by 5 through turnitin.com • Write a 1 ½-2 page rhetorical analysis of an editorial cartoon that you select now from slate.com. • Print it out. • Email me the url.

  37. Homework

  38. Always check your syllabus • Finish out of class assignment • HW: Read EN Chapter 1 “Analyzing Texts” • Complete EN Chapter 1 worksheet

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