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The Research Process

The Research Process. Drafting your Research paper. The Style of the Draft. Avoid making your paper personal & subjective. Avoid using informal language. Do not use the following words: I, me, my, mine, we, & our . Do not state opinions without supporting them with facts.

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The Research Process

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  1. The Research Process Drafting your Research paper

  2. The Style of the Draft Avoid making your paper personal & subjective. Avoid using informal language. Do not use the following words: I, me, my, mine, we, & our. Do not state opinions without supporting them with facts. Do not use slang, nonstandard dialect, or contractions.

  3. Assembling the Draft • Do not worry about matters you can take care of later (spelling, grammar, usage, mechanics, etc.). • Concentrate on getting your ideas down in an order that makes sense. • Use your outline as a guide. • Explore each main point. • Support the idea with evidence from your note cards. • Be sure to note the source card number when you use a piece of information from a note card.

  4. Incorporating Summaries & Paraphrases Write them out as part of your text & include a source number at the end of the summarized or paraphrased material. Be sure to use transitions to connect the material smoothly to the sentences that precede or follow it.

  5. Incorporating Quotations • If the quotation is four lines long or less, put it in quotation marks & place it in the text of your paper. • You do not have to quote complete sentences. • Example: • An actress who visited one of the migrant camps wrote of seeing “unimaginable suffering” (13). • You can break a quotation into two parts. • Example: • “I went around in a sick daze for hours,” wrote an actress who visited a camp, “after witnessing unimaginable suffering” (13).

  6. Incorporating Quotations, cont. When a quoted passage is more than four lines long, set it off from the text of your paper. Put a colon after the statement that introduces the quotation. Begin a new line. Indent the entire quotation, and do not enclose it in quotation marks.

  7. Transitions Between Paragraphs To show… • Similarity • Also, in the same way, likewise • Exception/Contrast • However, on the other hand, nonetheless • Sequence/Order • First, second, third • Next, finally • Time • Currently, meanwhile, simultaneously • Example • For example, for instance, specifically

  8. Transitions Between Paragraphs, cont. • Emphasis • Even, in fact, truly • Place/position • Above, beyond • Cause & effect • Accordingly, therefore, consequently • Additional support/evidence • Additionally, again, also • Conclusion/summary • Finally, on the whole, in summary

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