Update: Our current curriculum, Springboard, organizes writing instruction differently than what we've done in the past.  Students will have the opportunity to write in several different genres while still practicing many of the research-based writing skills.

Research paper skills:

Students will receive information for each step of the research paper process.  This information is available in our Canvas class.

Here are the skills we're going over in class:

• Rubric analysis

• Topic choice 

• Database research

• Source evaluation

• Types of sources

• Paraphrase and quotations

• Avoiding plagiarism

• MLA format with in-text citations and a Works Cited page

• Outlining

• Thesis

• Intro and Conclusion paragraphs

• Embedding quotations

• Synthesis in a paper

• Counter-argument and rebuttal

• Parts of a body paragraph

• Editing and revision