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Mythology Research Report

Mythology Research Report. Mrs. Michel – English I . Research Steps. Choose a topic Find a decent source Copy publication information Take notes on the main ideas Make note of the page # your notes come from. How to avoid plagiarism: Write notes in your own words

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Mythology Research Report

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  1. Mythology Research Report Mrs. Michel – English I

  2. Research Steps • Choose a topic • Find a decent source • Copy publication information • Take notes on the main ideas • Make note of the page # your notes come from. • How to avoid plagiarism: • Write notes in your own words • If you copy down more than two words from the source, put them in “quotation marks” and include page #

  3. Essay Criteria • Introduction: Describe what mythology is (use at least five sentences) and explain how your god, goddess, hero, person, or story fits into mythology (at least two sentences) • Three body paragraphs (at least) that are at least eight sentences long. Each body paragraph should explain something about your god, goddess, hero, person, or story. • Your conclusion should summarize your entire paper and be at least five sentences long.

  4. Essay Criteria, Continued • You must pre-organize your essay (notecards or formal outline format) • TWO typed pages. Use paragraphs (intro, body, and conclusion) • If you handwrite your essay, it should be three pages. • Your essay must be double spaced. • Typed: Times New Roman 12 Point Font

  5. Adding parenthetical citations When you give a fact that came from a particular source, add the author’s last name and the page number where the information can be found in (parentheses) after the sentence or group of sentences: When the realms of the universe were divided between the three brothers, Poseidon got the seas and oceans, Hades got the Underworld and the dead, and Zeus got the skies (Blackwell 44). When you add a quotation, something that you copy word-for-word, from a source, add the author’s last name and the page number where the information can be found in (parentheses) after the sentence: According to the Roman poet Ovid, the “nine daughters of king Pierus of Pella impiously assumed the names of the Muses and challenged the supremacy of the genuine Helicon goddesses” (Summers 923).

  6. A Book With Multiple Authors (Encyclopedia) MLA Work Cited Page A Book With One Author Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print. Last name, First name. “Chapter or section of the book.” Ed. Editor’s Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Page number. Print.

  7. Work Cited Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths Volume Two. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Print. Kick, Donata. “Bergelmir.” Ed. C Scott Littleton. Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2005. 233-234. Print.

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