The Research Process
The first step of the research process.
What is picking a topic?
The overall topic of the paper based on the following thesis:
High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity, their knowledge, and their global awareness.
What is high school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college?
The correct order of sources on a references page.
What is alphabetical order?
This type of note copies the text of the original directly.
What is direct quote?
The last sentence of the introduction is called this.
What is thesis?
The step that happens after finishing note-taking.
What is creating an outline?
What is the third body paragraph about in the following thesis:
My state should ban all cell phone use during driving because it leads to distracted driving, causes accidents, and can hurt or kill innocent people.
What is cell phone use while driving can hurt or kill innocent people?
The correct punctuation for the title of an article.
What is quotation marks?
This type of note condenses a large amount of information into only the big ideas.
What is a summary?
What is clincher
After finding sources, the next step is this.
What is color-coded highlighting?
The two main parts of a thesis.
What are the overall topic of the paper and the main points of the body paragraphs?
The appropriate punctuation for the title of a book.
What is italicizing (or underlining, if handwritten)?
All notes require this.
What is a citation or sentence starter?
The longer of the two options: researched material or analysis of researched material.
What is the analysis of researched material?
The last page of any APA research paper is called this.
What is a references page?
Write a thesis with the following information:
Overall topic: Monsters are scary.
Body 1: big teeth
Body 2: big and fast
Body 3: mean
What is Monsters are scary because they have big teeth, are big and fast, and are mean?
The appropriate way of stating an author's name on a references page.
What is first initial and full last name?
This type of note should be about the same length as the original.
Paraphrase.
Before a topic sentence, body paragraphs need this
What is a transition?
Explain how to highlight sources. Include the color-coded system.
What is develop your three main points, make a highlighting key for those three main points on your source, decide which information fits in each of the main points, and highlight each piece of information with the appropriate color?
Write a thesis for a paper with three main points about the topic below.
Topic: Schools should not ban cell phones.
What is Schools should not ban cell phones because of safety, family communication, and medical help?
Create an appropriate in-text citation for a quotation of the information below.
Text: APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.
Author: Jones
Date: 1998
Page: 199
What is APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
While years and author names are required in citations, this detail is optional.
This is absolutely not allowed as a way to phrase an attention getter.
What is a question?