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As your research paper begins to take shape, think of the ways that you can express your ideas about your topic. Strive for incorporating many of these responses in your paper.

Writing can have many different purposes. For each example, write down a topic or subtopic from your paper which lends itself to this style of writing.

• Summarizing: Presenting the main points or essence of another text in a condensed form

 

    1.

• Arguing/Persuading: Expressing a viewpoint on an issue or topic in an effort to convince others that your viewpoint is correct

 

    2.

• Narrating: Telling a story or giving an account of events

 

    3.

• Evaluating: Examining something in order to determine its value or worth based on a set of criteria.

 

    4.

• Analyzing: Breaking a topic down into its component parts in order to examine the relationships between the parts.

 

    5.

 

• Examining/Investigating: Systematically questioning a topic to discover or uncover facts that are not widely known or accepted, in a way that strives to be as neutral and objective as possible.

    6.

• Observing: Helping the reader see and understand a person, place, object, image or event that you have directly watched or experienced through detailed sensory descriptions.

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Step 1) In Google Docs, create a FOLDER titled Senior Project.

 

Step 2) From this folder, create a document titled Works Cited Page--copy and paste the eddress for each source that you use into this document.  Keep adding sources as you conduct your research. Number each one like this:

 

1. http://www.johnnycashmuseum.com/

 

2.http://www.theartcareerproject.com/shoot-for-the-sky-learn-about-a-career-in-photography/90/

 

3.http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/acupuncture/basics/definition/PRC-20020778

 

Step 3) Complete your outline if you haven’t done so.

 

Step 4) Label each notecard as you take notes, with a corresponding number from your outline.  

 

Step 5) Label each notecard with your source number as well.

 

Example:

 

Your goal is to take notes on each section from your outline.  Then you transpose those notes into your research paper.