1. Paper #5: Researched Essay This is a separate graded essay; it does not replace a previous essay's grade. Therefore, it is to your benefit to revise the essay that you feel will demonstrate your writing and researching skills at their best.

2. Research Paper For this paper, you should integrate at least three secondary sources, at least two of which are of a scholarly nature, into your original revised paper, making sure that you address any possible dissenting opinions about your topic and that you choose only the most credible of sources.

3. Research Paper Introduction with thesis Body –Point One Primary Support Secondary Support –Point Two Primary Support Secondary Support Conclusion

4. Search Tools The Library’s Website is indispensable

5. Search Tools IDAL First Search ProQuest Direct If you find an essay or article that looks promising but full text is not available through your database, check the library’s holdings list.

6. Attachments/Requirements After your Works Cited page, attach printouts or photocopies of your sources. Then attach the copy of your prior graded paper with its evaluation sheet. On the title line, please include the paper number as 5/x, replacing x with the number of the original paper.

7. Integrating Research You use the same rules integrating research that you do when integrating prose literature. Short quotations –Make sure you integrate the quotation with introductory or explanatory information. –Make sure that the quotation and your integrating device together make a complete grammatical unit.

8. Integrating Research For long quotations –Make sure you have a complete sentence introducing the extended quotation, followed by a colon (:). –Include final punctuation before the parenthetical citation

9. Citing Research Academic Journal Citation: –Bernstein, Stephen. "Form and Ideology in the Gothic Novel." Essays in Literature 18 (1991): 151-165. Academic Journal, Electronic Database: –John Savoie. "A Poet's Quarrel: Jamesian Pragmatism and Frost's ‘The Road Not Taken’. " The New England Quarterly 77.1 (2004): 5-24. Research Library Core ProQuest. Jacobs Library, Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, IL. 4 May 2004 http://www.proquest.com/

10. Electronic Tricks of the Trade E-mail articles to yourself if you cannot copy from them on the screen. Having your paper open (saving often) while doing your research might save time, as you can copy and paste the research material into your paper, but don’t forget to quote and cite it. Some electronic databases, like ProQuest, will put your citation into MLA format for you.