THE RESEARCH PAPER

1. Selection of topic
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/research/reshelp/topic.html

http://www.ted.com/talks

The stduent will pose a RESEARCH QUESTION on a topic that they has interest in and can find

sufficient information about to write a research paper and create a corresponding multi-media

presentation.

Developing a RESEARCH TOPIC Link

http://www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/WritersComplex.nsf/wholeshortlinks2/Developing+Thesis?opendocument

Research Links

Individual Research Question: written by individual

2. THE RESEARCH QUESTION

Research Question Power Point Link
ResearchQuestion PPT
Writing a GOOD Research
Question
Creating a Good Research
Question
Difference Between Research Question and Hypothesis

Help! I need to set up my paper using MLA Format!

MLA Tutorial #1: Basic Paper Formatting
Mini Lesson - Easy Bib

FINDING YOUR SOURCES

Wait? I can't just use GOGGLE? What other research tools are out
there?
Finding online sources for your research paper
Finding Sources for a Research Paper
3. Finding Your Sources READING - notes turned in
Mini Lessons: logos, ethos, and pathos

Preliminary Research : Primary and Secondary Source

Developing surveys and other forms of gathering original research

Formulate a Research Question/Thesis Statement

Collecting your sources and the ANNOTATED WORK CITED (MLA Format)

Group Reading Prezi

http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm

Creating your NOTE CARDS

Creating Note Cards

8. Research Paper Long 8-10 page research paper – see assignment sheet and
instructor rubric

Short 3 - 4 page research paper with PRESENTATION

Notecards
Bibliography MLA

OJC Rubric or LJHS Rubric

MLA style – 1” margins – 12 pt. Times New Roman – Double spaced – Annotated

Works Cited or bibliography with 8-10 sources and 3 genres (same research

may be used for paper and presentation)

RUBRICS - Click on the link at the bottom of the page and print a copy and

include it with your paper.

WHAT IS MLA FORMAT?

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

How do I credit sources in my paper?

In MLA style you briefly credit sources with parenthetical citations in the text of your

paper, and give the complete description of each source in your ...
The author's last name and page number(s) are placed in parentheses in the text to give credit
to sources.

For example, in your paper you write:

In their Preface, the authors point out that "Learning Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is like learning any new language, computer
or human" (Musciano and Kennedy xi).

If you cite another paragraph from the same work, or if the author or authors are clearly indicated
in your text, common sense dictates that you only need to add page number(s) for the citation.
For example:

Musciano and Kennedy suggest that we should avoid breaking tags across lines in our
source document whenever possible to promote readability and reduce potential errors in HTML
documents (41).

To cite information obtained from the Internet, in your text you write, e.g.:

On May 2, 2002, some 4500 students wrote the difficult University of Waterloo, Physics
Department, Sir Isaac Newton (SIN) Examination. Amazingly, there were three perfect
papers! Two team members from Don Mills Collegiate Institute broke Waterloo's SIN record not
so much for finishing First Place but both students on the team had perfect exams ("SIN 2002").

In your Bibliography, your entry for this parenthetical reference would read:

"SIN 2002 Book Prize Winners." U of Waterloo. 3 Nov. 2002

<http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/physics/sin/prizewin.html>.

If your citation refers to a Web site by four or more authors, e.g. Charlie Harris, Laurence A.
Moore, Steven Blacher, Yvonne Hewett, and others entitled: "URLs for a Rainy Day" found at
<http://www.purefiction.co.uk/pages/res2.htm>, in your essay you write: