Tài liệu RESEARCH AND WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS PART 2 ppt

... lessons of 20 minutes a day by using basic research and writing tools that you can practice at home. Each lesson is carefully designed to make researching any topic and writing a research paper ... your sources.  Becoming a Detective Part of writing a research paper is gathering your materials and doing the actual, physical research. This is the fun and exciting pa...

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... Lesson 3 19. c. Lesson 8 20 . c. Lesson 11 21 . b. Lesson 8 22 . d. Lesson 18 23 . b. Lesson 8 24 . a. Lesson 15 25 . a. Lesson 18 26 . c. Lesson 11 27 . d. Lesson 12 28. c. Lesson 12 29. d. Lesson 15 30. a. ... Lesson 15 32. d. Lesson 15 33. c. Lesson 20 34. a. Lesson 12 35. b. Lesson 18 36. c. Lesson 20 37. a. Lesson 20 38. b. Lesson 12 39. a. Lesson 12 40. a. Lesson 15...

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... for informa- tion and materials. This is the most fun and exciting part of the process! Rather than just thinking about your paper, you are now an active participant in the research process. ... Guide to current and past peri- odicals and printed articles ■ dictionaries ■ other compiled indexes according to sub- ject matter, thesauruses and atlases. Often, the range and scope...

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... unlike books, and are particularly easy to flip through and consult. In fact, if you take your notes carefully, most of your information will have already been organized and arranged before- hand, making ... a wonderful way to store and record infor- mation because they are both easy to use and handy to arrange. Take your note cards from your holder and begin to arrange and rearr...

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... staff – WRITING A FIRST DRAFT– 58 – WRITING A FIRST DRAFT– 59 that included 15 Rhodes scholars and other famous authors and intellectu- als.”* [* Be sure to always include the page numbers and the ... paper in the body was carefully outlined and supported in Point #1, Point #2, and Point #3. As you write your paper and fill in your outline with all the facts and statistics th...

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... other words, whenever and wherever you can, read your writing to yourself. Think of yourself as that courtroom attorney. Do you really want to get up and talk to the judge and jury as if you were ... how you say it.” In writing a paper, however, it is both: it is what you say—making sure that it is relevant and also how you say it.  Summary Establishing a strong tone and writin...

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... reader and build your case through the steady accumulation of facts). 15 Opinions, on the other hand, are: 1. events believed to have occurred, or interpreted according to a particular viewpoint. 2. ... hearsay, speculation, bias, and gossip. These are not legitimate means of gathering, recording, and presenting material. On the other hand, the second account presents the facts and l...

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... 2. STRUCTURE AND WRITING STYLE ■ Do your ideas and writing flow? ■ Are there smooth transitions from sen- tence to sentence, paragraph to para- graph, and from page to page? ■ Is ... page to page? ■ Is your analysis easy to follow and understand? 3. VOCABULARY AND TONE ■ Is your tone professional? ■ Is the writing persuasive and com- pelling? ■ Are there any unnecessary word...

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... Confronted Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy (New York: Little House Press, 1995), p. 21 3. The precise punctuation and format required for footnotes and endnotes can be confusing and complicated to ... per- son’s idea as your own. For example, if you are writing a science paper and you state: Example B: The key to understanding the transformation of energy and mat...

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... historians and authors differed from their predecessors. They devoted less research to Kennedy’s own experiences and personal circumstances and focused directly on the legislation he initiat- ed. A particularly ... helpful and why. A historiography, on the other hand, does not examine each book individually but instead, looks at a body of work and assesses how many books examine...

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