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🥾 Create a Research Question Appropriate to your Purpose
🥾 Create a Research Question Appropriate to your Purpose
When researching, finding good information depends on asking good questions. When researching with the intent to inform, you really need to focus on writing fact-focused questions. Use this presentations to help you discover the difference between these two types of questions, so that you can create a research question that is appropriate to your purpose.
If you're having difficulty coming up a research question, use this Thesis Generator to get you unstuck.
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Find Sources Online
Find Sources Online
Once you've crafted a high quality research question to help guide your search, use that question to help you search for information within search engines (e.g. Google or Bing), scholarly databases (e.g. Google Scholar, Ebsco, or Explora), or encyclopedias (e.g. World Book, etc.).
Use the "Citations" tool within Google Docs to help you cite these sources correctly so that you can use them in your essays.
⚠️ You should find and include at least three sources that discuss your topic from different perspectives (e.g. a public health perspective, a legal perspective, and a business owner's perspective).
How to Assess the Reliability and Usability of Sources
How to Assess the Reliability and Usability of Sources
How to Quote, Paraphrase, & React (ELA.7.3)
How to Quote, Paraphrase, & React (ELA.7.3)
Direct quotations
Direct quotations
Keep your quotations short and sweet. Most of your quotes need to be less than two lines (and preferably less than one sentence) long.
Make sure that your quotation clearly illustrates the point you are trying to make.
Paraphrases
Paraphrases
If you need to use information that extends over a passage that is too long to quote, you may rephrase the critical information in your own words. However, remember to cite this information both in-text and in your Works Cited section.
Reactions/Observations
Reactions/Observations
This is your take on how useful this source will be to your research and/or how you plan to use it to support your claims.
Avoid Plagiarism!!!
Avoid Plagiarism!!!
NEVER
Use a phrase or a sentence from a book or magazine in your essay without acknowledging your source (e.g. without putting quotation marks around the quoted material and without mentioning the author).
Borrow specific ideas from another writer without acknowledging your source, even if you write the idea in your own words.
Cut and paste text from the Internet into your paper without acknowledging the source.
Hand in a paper under your name that has been written by someone else (e.g. downloading an essay from the Internet and handing it in as your own).
If you have any questions about using sources, please ask your teacher.
📁 Submit your Assignment
📁 Submit your Assignment
Submit your assignment (ELA 7 - Research) in Slate. (6pt)
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