Research Paper
You will be researching a topic and writing a paper to support a thesis. Your paper will contain MLA citations to support your thesis statement and conclude with a list of works cited.
Step 1:
Your first step will be researching some background information on your topic. If you find an article that will be useful to you, copy the entire article and save it in MS Word.
Directions for Saving Articles to MS Word:
Open MS Word.
Copy the MLA citation from your article and paste it at the top.
Copy the entire text of the article and paste it below the citation.
Save one article per document.
Step two:
After reading a good background article about your topic or after gathering and reading several articles about your topic, create a working thesis statement. See the link below about creating a thesis statement.
Step three:
Find and save research articles that support your thesis statement. Read each article and highlight the important and relevant information.
Step four: Using the highlighted articles create note slides in PowerPoint. The notes will be either a direct quote or a paraphrase. See link below for information on paraphrasing.
Step five: Organize note slides, create outline for your paper and compose your rough draft.
Step six: Compose paper including in-text citations
Step seven: Compose your MLA style works cited page.
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