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Title: Writing the research paper


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Writing the research paper
  • General Directions

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Composing a research paper
  • Youve done the legwork taking notes and
    composing an outline.
  • Now you need to use the outline and your notes to
    prove your thesis statement.

3
Writing introduction paragraphs
  • Follow the details on the outline they tell you
    what belongs in the introductory paragraph
  • You must have a grabber Get your readers
    attention.
  • Ask a question and link it to the topic
  • Or, provide startling statistics or facts
  • Or begin by setting up a scenario related to your
    topic.
  • State your thesis in the form of a sentence.
  • In separate sentences, provide the main points
    which will prove the thesis.

4
Writing concluding paragraphs
  • Restate your thesis in the form of a sentence
  • Restate your main points, in separate sentences
  • Link the main points to the thesis statement
  • End with a clincher sentence.
  • The clincher is the last thought you leave your
    reader about the topic
  • It could answer the opening question
  • It could offer a different set of statistics, or
    comment that the opening statistics would change
    as a result of
  • It could offer a different scenario from that
    which opened the paper.

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Proving your thesis statement
  • Each of your main points will contain details
    that prove your thesis statement.
  • Your main point are in the form of a sentence.
  • These sentences become the topic sentences of
    each body paragraph.
  • The details from your outline (and others that
    you have on your note cards) will then be
    included to support the main point.
  • At the end of each main point paragraph, add a
    sentence which links the information back to the
    thesis. This sentence must explain how the
    information in the paragraph proves the thesis.

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In-text Citationsor, how not to plagiarize
  • If you are using information that did not
    originally come from your own brain, YOU must
    give credit to the person who originally had the
    info, or who inspired the thought.
  • There are several ways to do this
  • Direct quotation
  • Embedding
  • Paraphrasing

All require citing your source.
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Quotation
  • Criminals obviously have illegal ways of
    obtaining guns (Cassidy 22).
  • Long direct quotations single space, 2 margins
    left/right
  • Shortly after her husband left for work, a Waco
  • Texas housewife heard the front door window
  • break. A strange man reached in, unlocked the
  • door, and entered the front room. The house-
  • wife ran to the Bedroom. She locked the door
  • and grabbed a handgun kept beneath the mattress.
  • The intruder kicked the door. He saw the gun
  • aimed at him. He left (Leddy 144).

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Embedding
  • Embedding is a combination of your own wording of
    the sentence, and part of someone elses words.
  • Gardiner believes that the purpose of this
    amendment was to secure each individual the
    right to keep and bear arms so that he could
    protect his absolute individual rights (110).

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Paraphrasing
  • You take someone elses words and rephrase them
    or put them in your own words
  • Gun shops reported huge increases in sales prior
    to the new laws implementation (20).

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4/21/04
  • Aim How do I write a bibliography?
  • Do Now Copy HW/Aim
  • Correct the bibliography on the next slide.
  • HW Complete reading Catcher and take notes on
    each chapter due tomorrow.
  • EXPECT A QUIZ.

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Sample Works CitedWhats wrong with it?
  • Gest, ted. Gun Controls Limits. US News and
    World Report. 6 December 1993, 22-26.
  • Daemmrich, Joanna. Women Get Comfortable with
    Guns. Baltimore Sun 14 June 1992 1.
  • Alan Pierce. Gun Control Would Not Control
    Crime. 2 July 2002. www.SHS12RX.edu.
  • Leddy, Edward F. Gun Control. Gun Owners
    protect themselves from Crime. Ed. Andrew
    Gingrich. New York Doubleday, 1992.

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Sample Works CitedCorrected
  • Daemmrich, Joanna. Women Get Comfortable with
    Guns. Baltimore Sun. 14 June 1992 1.
  • Gest, Ted. Gun Controls Limits. US News and
    World Report. 6 December 1993, 22-26.
  • Leddy, Edward F. Gun Owners Protect Themselves
    from Crime. Gun Control. Ed. Andrew Gingrich
    New York Doubleday, 1992.
  • Pierce, Alan. Gun Control Would Not Control
    Crime. 2 July 2002. www.SHS12RX.edu.
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