1. Countdown October 30, 2013 No Journal  Sharpen pencil
Fill in your agenda.
Have your RESEARCH notes out from Monday.

3. Putting the vocabulary into action…
Research Terms!
Putting the vocabulary into action…

4. What is Expository Writing?
Writing to inform.
There are several types:
How-to
Cause and Effect
Problem and solution
Compare and Contrast
Research writing
Narrative

5. What are primary sources?
Original records of the past.
Ex: Journals, letters, photographs, government documents, periodicals (newspapers, magazines), etc.

6. What are secondary sources?
Accounts of the past written by someone looking back on an event.
Ex: Textbooks, encyclopedias, books, websites, etc.

7. How do I record information to use in a paper or project?
There are three ways to record information from a source.
Quote
Paraphrase
Summarize

8. How do I Paraphrase?
Paraphrase the source by using your own words to tell what the source says.
Use about the same number of words as the source does.

9. How Do I Summarize?
Summarize the source by recording only the most important ideas in your own words.
Use fewer words than the source does.

10. Enclose the copied words in quotation marks.
How Do I Quote?
Quote the source by copying the important phrase or sentence word for word.
Enclose the copied words in quotation marks.

11. When should I Quote a source?
Quote only when you cannot restate the idea in the source as clearly, vividly, or forcefully as the source does.
Most of your notes should be summaries and paraphrases.

12. What do you need to do to be academically honest?
Avoid Plagiarism: presenting someone else’s ideas or research as your own.
Internal Citation: documentation that occurs within a paper to give credit to other authors.

13. How do you record the sources you used?
Bibliography: A list of sources of a research paper or project that the writer CONSULTED (looked at) while conducting research.
Works Cited: A list of sources of a research paper project that the writer NAMED (specifically quoted) in the body of the paper.