Research Guidelines

Topic/research question

Preliminary researchFocus topicSourcesEvaluate credibilitySource cards

Note cardsThesis statementOutlinePower point

Steps in Writing a Research

Report

Systematic investigation to establish facts or principles or to collect information on a subject

Research

Report which combines facts and original insights to present information on a topic

Each original conclusion in a research report should be supported by facts and other evidence.

Research Report

Materials that might be used as a source of information

To get an overview of their topic researchers might want to check resources such as encyclopedias or other reference work.

Resources

Subject of researchBecause there was too much information on his research topic, he decided to narrow his focus.

Research Topic

General Goal: I want to understand Divergent better OR I want to relate what I learned in Divergent to a real world topic. Question:Which faction would ______________have been in?What are 3 actions or beliefs held by that person to help me determine his/her faction?

Set Research GoalsFirst, write down the goals for your research.

Anything that supplies information.She took facts from several sources including books, articles, and web sites.

Sources

Evaluate Sources

Documentation

Giving of credit to source of information used in a research reportWithout documentation, the source or origin of facts would be unknown.

Documentation

Documentation

Without documentation, you would be PLAGIARIZING!

Documentation

DocumentationUse of other people’s words and/or ideas without an explanation of where these ideas and words came from.

Plagiarism

Documentation

Two types of documentation:In text citations

End text citations

Documentation

Documentation

In text citations go right in your report next to the information you got from the source.

Documentation

We will not use in-text for this project. We will learn this when we write a documented essay.

Documentation

End text citations go right at the end of the report. You may know these as the Bibliography or Works Cited page.

Documentation

You WILL have to create a Works Cited slide for your power point presentation.

You MUST include a Works Cited slide for your project.

Documentation

Index cards that contain the relevant information about a source that would enable others to easily find the source themselves

Using his source card, he was able to locate the address of the web site and reprint the lost pages.

Source Cards

You WILL have to create a Works Cited slide for your power point presentation.

Documentation

Source cards should contain ALL the information you will use in your Works Cited slide

(McDougal 1058)

Source Cards

Information you need for a source card

Web article

Author (last name and first). “Article title.”

Site Title. Date posted or last updated.

Sponsor. (if available) Date accessed.

<web address>

Documentation

Note Cards will contain the information you find in your research. You will probably use this in your report.

Note Cards

Documentation

Note Cards

Information you need for a note card

Topic (what note is about) Source #

Note content: If quoted, put in quotation

marks. It is best to paraphrase or put in your

own words.

Documentation

Note Cards

Documentation

Avoid Plagiarism

Documentation

Avoid Plagiarism