1. NHD Process Paper
The supreme guide to creating an outline/draft, and writing the beast itself. 
PANIC
Sit around, thinking about starting your process papers…
DEADLINE
Work Begins
Do all work while crying!

2. Success is a Process!
A process paper is a description of no more than 500 words explaining how you conducted your research and created and developed your entry. You must conclude your description with an explanation of the relationship of your topic to the contest theme. (nhd.org)

3. Edith Wilson: Rights and Responsibilities of a First Lady
Your title page must include only the title of your entry, your name(s) and the contest division and category in which you are entered. Do not include your age, grade or school name.
Title
DO THIS…
NOT THIS…
Edith Wilson: A Cool Person
Ms. Skibitsky
Junior Division
Age: 106, Grade: 3rd, Address: 248 Pleasedon’tdothis Lane
Edith Wilson: Rights and Responsibilities of a First Lady
Ms. Skibitsky
Junior Division
Website
Division
Name
Category
Step One: Title Page

4. How You Chose Your Topic How You Conducted Research
Outline How-To
Use those numerals! “She doesn’t understand Roman Numerals…she thought we fought in World War Eleven…”
Give me two to three sentences per numeral!
HOW TO:
How You Chose Your Topic
How You Conducted Research
a. How You Selected Your Presentation Category b. How You Created Your Project
IV. How Your Project Relates to the Theme

5. SAMPLE OUTLINE
How You Chose Your Topic (I chose Edith Wilson because we discussed her in my history class this year, and I was impressed by her actions as a First Lady)
How You Conducted Research (I used several websites and books to complete my research. I started by using Encyclopedia Britannica to research the time period when she was a First Lady…)
a. How You Selected Your Presentation Category (I chose to do a website because I enjoy working with technology, etc. )
b. How You Created Your Project I created my project with Weebly, pulling together images from my research and self-created text))
How Your Project Relates to the Theme (My choice of Edith Wilson relates to the theme because as first lady she had a responsibility to the American People as well as to her husband and she had the right to…etc)

6. If you would like to see a sample…

7. Final Process Paper Draft
Step One: Turn your outline draft in on Friday, December 6th, Include your title page stapled to the front of your outline!
Have your outline approved by me and make any changes necessary.
Use your outline to write your process paper. Reminders: Not more than 500 words, DO NOT PLAGARIZE, you MUST turn one in with your final project in February.
If you need help- see me!