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RESEARCH PAPER

RESEARCH PAPER. FULL OUTLINE. Full outline is. The formal organizational stage of the writing process Usually as long or longer than your final paper Your paper without transitions and your own commentary . Full outline includes. Topic Sentences

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RESEARCH PAPER

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  1. RESEARCH PAPER FULL OUTLINE

  2. Full outline is • The formal organizational stage of the writing process • Usually as long or longer than your final paper • Your paper without transitions and your own commentary

  3. Full outline includes • Topic Sentences • Quotations and paraphrases from both your primary and secondary sources • In-text citations

  4. Full outlines are wonderful… • Because they allow you to “cut and paste” your quotations • They show you if you are focusing on one aspect of your paper too much • They keep you organized before your rough draft

  5. In-text (parenthetical) citations • Objective: Clearly direct your reader to the entry in your works cited page • Required for all information that is not “common knowledge” • Must be used for paraphrases or any direct references to thoughts and ideas that are not your own

  6. Standard Formatting • In-text citation: • Author, page # • (Townsend 10). • Mention the author in the text, then only give page #: • Townsend writes “blah, blah, blah” (10).

  7. Two authors • Works cited page reads: • Jakobson, Roman and Linda R. Waugh. • Parenthetical Citation reads: • (Jakobson and Waugh 25).

  8. Works listed by a title • Works Cited Reads: • “Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed. • Citation reads: • “blah, blah, blah” (“Mandarin”).

  9. Works Listed by a title 2 • Works Cited Reads: • Report of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest. New York: Arno, 1970. • Citation reads: • “blah, blah, blah” (Report).

  10. Citing Two or more Works by the same author • RULE: Put a comma after the author’s last name and add the title of the work (if brief) or shortened version and relevant pages • OR, Use the title of the book in your sentence

  11. USEFUL MLA WEBSITES • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/ • http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s1.html

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