1 / 17

Research National History Project

Research National History Project. Mrs. Cechak. What is Research?. Research is finding facts and truths about something you need or want to know. Six Steps to Research. Identify Topic – Thesis Statement Keywords Locate Resources – handout (Primary Sources) Record Information

fala
Download Presentation

Research National History Project

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ResearchNational History Project Mrs. Cechak

  2. What is Research? • Research is finding facts and truths about something you need or want to know

  3. Six Steps to Research • Identify Topic – Thesis Statement • Keywords • Locate Resources – handout (Primary Sources) • Record Information • Collect & Organize info. • Evaluate Info. • Cite Sources – handout (media) or www.citationmachine.net or easybib app

  4. Identify TopicThesis Statement A Thesis Statement: • tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. • is a road map for the paper; in other words, it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper. • directly answers the question asked of you. A thesis is an interpretation of a question or subject, not the subject itself. The subject, or topic, of an essay might be World War II or Moby Dick; a thesis must then offer a way to understand the war or the novel. • makes a claim that others might dispute. • is usually a single sentence somewhere in your first paragraph that presents your argument to the reader. The rest of the paper, the body of the essay, gathers and organizes evidence that will persuade the reader of the logic of your interpretation. Source: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html

  5. Keywords • Brainstorm • Write them down as you go • Keep it simple

  6. Locate Resources • Variety – websites (handout), online databases, books • Ask librarian • Ask professor

  7. Primary Sources • Primary Source: Letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history, interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts or anything else that provides first-hand accounts about a person or event. • Online Primary Sources

  8. Primary Sources – Online Databases • Thomson Gale History US & World (aacps/aacps) • ABC CLIO Social Studies (anne/arundel) • EBSCO (bhs/annearundel) Advanced Search and select “primary source”

  9. Secondary Sources • Reference Books – encyclopedias, non fiction books, biographies, newspaper articles (see media staff) • Online Databases • Internet (edu,gov) - Wikipedia is not a “reliable” source • National Public Radio(ex: http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2011/09/12/140353795/have-the-media-already-decided-the-gop-race-and-can-the-dems-lose-ny-09

  10. Annotated Bibliography • Explain how the source was used and how it helped you understand your topic. • List only those sources that you used to develop your entry. An annotation normally should be only 1-3 sentences long. Source (example):Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. 1st ed. New York: David McKay Co. …..Inc., 1962. Annotation (example):Daisy Bates was the president of the Arkansas NAACP and the one who met and listened to the students each day. This first-hand account was very important to my paper because it made me more aware of the feelings of the people involved. Source: http://www.nhd.org/ConductingResearch.htm

  11. What is a Works Cited list? A list of allmaterials used to find information needed for a report or project.

  12. To avoid plagiarizing, you must give credit (cite source) whenever you use: • another person's idea, opinion, or theory, • any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge, • quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or • a paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words. PLAGIARISM…To steal and pass off (the ideas and words of another) as one’s own without crediting the source. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Source: http://www.aug.edu/sociology/plagiarism.html

  13. Works CitedMLA Style(handout)orwww.Citationmachine.netor Easybib app

  14. Citing Sources • Why cite sources • Write down sources as you go • Notes – write down page # (parenthetical citation) • Use quotations when using others’ words • You must cite the source even when you paraphrase ideas from a source • See handout or view Media Link on school homepage for examples (MLA)

  15. Parenthetical Citations • Used to document any external sources used within a document • The parenthetical citations direct readers to the full bibliographic citations listed in the Works Cited • Author's last name (title if no author), page number Example: Although American and South Vietnamese forces prevailed, the shock and scope of the attacks stunned the American public and convinced a demoralized Johnson not to run for reelection (Kaufmann, 182). • http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/mlaparen.html

  16. Handouts • Goodies\media folder: Primary Sources, PPT • Broadneck.org/media/studentresources (national history project)

  17. Questions??

More Related