COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CAREER FIELDS

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COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CAREER FIELDS

• Grade 9
• RESEARCH PROJECT

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Research Topic

• Select any TWO career fields of your choice and
  interest and compare and/or contrast them in the
  following ways

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• a. Training required
• b. Work conditions
• c. Daily routine
• d. Opportunities
• e. Lifestyle of worker
• f. Salary

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• Length minimum of 5 pages, typed
• DEADLINE FOR ALL WORK

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STEP 1 SELECTING YOUR TWO CAREER FIELDS

• Decide what two careers/occupations you are most
  interested. Try to narrow your fields to your
  top two choices for this assignment though you
  may have many aspirations.
• Submit your choice to your teacher using the
  following sample THESIS CARD.

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THESIS CARD

• Smith, Bill
• Period 0
• Thesis questions
• A. What is interesting about becoming a Pilot?
• B. What is involved in becoming a Surgeon?

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STEP 2 SOURCE CARDS

• As you complete your research, you must complete
  at LEAST 60 NOTE CARDS from a MINIMUM of six (6)
  SOURCES.
• REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE AT LEAST
• Two books
• Two reference books (ex. Encyclopedia)
• Two on-line sources

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• Before completing note cards, the six sources
  must be found. Fill out the information below
  before beginning your research for each source
  and transfer this information to an index card
  using the format which follows.

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BOOK SOURCE CARD

• Mancuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments.
  New York Harper, 1975.
• YOU NEED AT LEAST TWO BOOK SOURCE CARDS!!!
• Notice that the citation is written in reverse
  indentation.

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BOOK ARTICLE OR CHAPTER

• Allende, Isabel. Toads Mouth. Trans.
  Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the
  Mangoes Stories from Latin America. Ed.
  Thomas Colchie. New York Plume, 1992. 83-88.

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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON THE INTERNET

• Achenback, Joel. Americas River. Washington
  Post 5 May 2002. 20 May 2002 http//www.washingto
  npost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a1345-2002May1.html.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON THE INTERNET

• Brooks, David. The Culture of Martyrdom.
  Atlantic Online June 2002. 24Sept. 2002
  lthttp//www.the atlantic.com/issues/2002/06/brooks
  .htmlgt.

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MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER SOURCE CARD

• Wilcox, Rhonda V. Shifting Roles and Synthetic
  Women in Star Trek the Next Generation.
  Studies in Popular Culture 13.2 (1991) 53-65.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE

• Sturgeon, Theodore. Science Fiction. The
  Encyclopedia Americana. International ed. 1995.

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DOCUMENTING A WEBSITE

• Includes
• Title of the web page
• The name of the entire website
• The organization that posted it
• (this may be the same as the name of the website)
• Date the page was created or last updated (day,
  month, year if possible)
• Date YOU looked at it

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Career Cruising Documentation

• Career Cruising site should be documented in the
  following manner
• Biologist. Career Cruising. Anaca
  Technologies Ltd. 24 Sept 2004
  http//www.careercruising.com.

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INTERNET SOURCES

• PRINT! PRINT!!! PRINT!!!!
• Make sure you print copies of ALL internet
  sources for your documentation at the time of
  your researching. Never, NEVER assume that you
  can go back and get it!!!

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STEP 3 NOTE CARDS

• Once you have found material that you wish to use
  in your paper, you must copy that information
  down using the note card format. Make sure to
  include the following
• ---Descriptive heading
• ---Information directly quoted
• ---Author or source and page
• REMEMBER YOU WILL NEED 10 CARDS PER SOURCE FOR A
  TOTAL OF 60!!!!!!!!

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SAMPLE NOTE CARD

• Purpose of Transportation
• (this shows the descriptive heading on top, left
  hand side of card)
• To bring people or goods to places where they
  are needed, not to support the automobile
  industry, nor increase unnecessary transportation
  but to offer a change of speed and mode to fit a
  diversity of human purposes.
• Mumford, 238
• (source on the bottom of card)

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Using Quotation in Text

• Quotations that constitute fewer than FIVE lines
  in your paper should be set off with quotation
  marks and be incorporated within the normal flow
  of your text. For material exceeding that length,
  omit the quotation marks and indent the quoted
  language one inch from you left-hand margin.

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Using a Quotation in Text

• If an indented quotation is taken entirely from
  one paragraph, the first line should be even with
  all the other lines in that quotation however,
  if an indented quotation comes from two or more
  paragraphs, indent the first line of each
  paragraph an additional one quarter inch.

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STEP 4 OUTLINE

• After all 60 note cards have been completed, it
  is time to write an outline. The outline will
  serve as a guide for the writer when the research
  paper is written.

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OUTLINING

• Now that you have gathered sources and created
  note cards that contain your information, you
  have to put them into an order. Using logical
  order to deliver your content is essential to
  writing a solid and coherent paper.

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OUTLINE

• SEE OUTLINE ATTACHED AS AN EXAMPLE FOR THE PROPER
  OUTLINE FORMAT TO BE USED.

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ROUGH DRAFT

• Now that you have organized your note cards and
  created your outline from the information, you
  are ready to begin writing the rough draft.

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ROUGH DRAFTS

• 1. Establish your thesis in the opening
  paragraph.
• 2. Use notes gathered to support your ideas.
• 3. Give credit to authors of the information you
  have gathered.
• 4. Use transitions to move from one topic to the
  next.
• 5. Never end a paragraph with a
  citation---NEVER!!!

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Using information in text

• When you write your rough draft, you will include
  the information you have collected through the
  research process.
• All information collected must be cited at the
  point of insertion into your paper.

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WORKS CITED

• Once you have found the sources you intend to
  use, you will need to identify them for your
  reader.
• For each SOURCE you use, write a separate listing
  (on an index card, your notebook or use your
  computer) with the following information

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WORKS CITED

• The name of the author or authors
• Title
• Editor, translator, compiler if any
• Edition, if it is not the first edition
• Place and date of the books publication
• The name of the books publisher

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REMEMBER

• The Source Card corresponds to the Note Card.
• Source Cards show where the information was
  gathered-----Note Cards contain the information
  you wish to use in your paper
• Works Cited gives credit to the
  publication/origin of the information

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ORGANIZATION OF WORKS CITED

• Double space throughout
• Reverse indent all sources

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MLA FORMAT FOR FINAL COPY

• SEE ATTACHED FOR PROPER FORMAT TO BE USED FOR
  FINAL COPY

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REMINDERS

• All Rough Drafts will be peer edited and revised.
• Final outlines and research papers, including
  Works Cited Page, will be typed using a clear
  12-point font equivalent in size to Times New
  Roman and double-spaced.
• Standard American English must be used at all
  times---NO contractions, slang and first person
  pronouns (I, me, my, myself, we)

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COMPLETED PROJECT

• At the completion of your project, you will
  submit your work in the following order
• Final Copy
• Works Cited
• Outline
• Rough Draft
• Think Sheet
• SOS Sheet

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• REMEMBER!
• THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SEARCH OUT A
  PERSPECTIVE CAREER YOU MAY BE CONSIDERING FOR
  YOUR FUTURE. SELECT CAREER FIELDS WHICH YOU ARE
  REALLY INTERESTED IN AND ---- GOOD LUCK!!