1. Lec 5 Research Methods Learning objectives: To know : 1.types of note taking 2.Plagiarism 3.punctuation

2. Summary : Summarize if you want to record only the general idea of large amount of material

3. Paraphrase if you require detailed notes on specific sentences and passages, but do not need the exact wording, you may wish to paraphrase-that is, to restate the material in your own words.

4. Quotation When you believe that some sentence or passage in its original wording might make an effective addition to your paper,

5. write that material as it appears., word for word,comma for comma and place quotation marks around words taken from the source.

6. Plagiarism To plagiarize means to ‘’commit literary theft’’ and to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

7. Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs: 1.Intellectual theft Using another person’s ideas, information or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work.

8. Fraud Passing off another person ideas, information or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage.

9. The Mechanics of Writing Spelling:

10. ACTIVITIES 1.summarize spelling into three words

11. Consistency Word-division plurals

12. ACTIVITIES

13. 3.punctuation What is the purpose of punctuation?

14. When do we use apostrophe? When do we use slash

15. When do we use comma? When do we use colon?

16. When do we use a period, a quotation mark,and exclamation mark

17. Names of persons Titles of Persons Do not write titles of persons

18. Titles of Persons Do not write titles of persons like Dr,Mr…

19. Title of work in a research paper What do we capitalize in the title(page86)?

20. What do we do not capitalize in the title(page86)?