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Fermentation Paper

Fermentation Paper. How to research your Fermentation Research paper. See Palmer library for EBSCO username & password. Big 6 Research Model. Step by step guide to research projects. Big 6 Research. What’s your topic? What sources will be best? How will we find material online?

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Fermentation Paper

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  1. Fermentation Paper How to research your Fermentation Research paper. See Palmer library for EBSCO username & password

  2. Big 6 Research Model Step by step guide to research projects

  3. Big 6 Research • What’s your topic? • What sources will be best? • How will we find material online? • Read and pull out info. • Organize the information into your paper. • Self-evaluate your work - use the rubric.

  4. 1. Task Definition • 1.1 Pick your topic (Choose a way that humans have harnessed the power of fermentation). • 1.2 What question(s) do you want to answer about your topic?

  5. Example Questions: How is fermentation used to make prescription drugs? How have different cultures used fermented milk products? Will fermentation play a significant role in alternative fuel sources?

  6. What You Need To Turn In • Introduction and outline for the rest of the paper – Due Tuesday Nov. 23rd. • 500-700 word paper - Due Thurs. Dec. 2nd • Works cited page does not count in your word count. Must include at least 3 sources. • Notes pages.

  7. 2. Information Seeking Strategies • 2.1 Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm). • 2.2 Select the best sources (recent and reliable).

  8. Citing Your Sources • Minimum of 3 sources. • Must credit your images if you include any. • Give web address and name of web page. Example: Hubble Public Photos www.nasa.gov/gallery

  9. Label and Cite Your Images Cortisone molecule Courtesy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cortisone.gif

  10. 3. Location and Access • 3.1 Locate sources - search the web for pages that relate to your question (don’t forget school databases not just Google). • 3.2 Find information within pages by looking for key words and phrases.

  11. 4. Use of Information • 4.1 Skim the articles you have found. • 4.2 Extract relevant information from a source. Use the trash & treasure method. Trash & Treasure - as you read a section ask if it answers any aspect of your question. If YES write it -- if NO trash it.

  12. Take Notes on the Note form provided • The note form requires you to identify your source as you go. • Paraphrase the information from your source needed to answer your research questions. • You will need to turn in your note pages attached to your final draft of your paper.

  13. Note format • Today’s date • Citation (title, author, publication, date, URL, etc.) • Subject of notes • Notes (important information—paraphrase, avoid copying and pasting huge blocks of text) • Ideas (record here your ideas and reactions to the information, ways to use it in your paper, your opinions, or further research you need to do on the information) • Your name: • Save with a descriptive title or a sequential number. • (Based onnote organizer from McKenzie, Jamie.Beyond Technology: Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School. Bellingham, WA: FNO Press, 2000.)

  14. 5. Synthesis • 5.1 Organize the information from your sources into your outline. • 5.2 Write your research paper: introduction, body, conclusion (think claims, evidence and explanation in each paragraph).

  15. 6. Evaluation • 6.1 Judge the product (effectiveness) use your rubric. • 6.2 Judge the information problem- solving process (efficiency) - fill out your self-evaluation form.

  16. THE END A Variety of Cheeses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cheeses

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