The high school student's guide to research papers : 101 ways to make your work stand out /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ocala, Florida :
Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contributors
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1
- What is a Research Paper?
- Thinking About Research
- Identifying cause and effect
- Analyzing a work
- Solving a problem
- As You Begin
- Asking for help
- The research process
- Chapter 2
- Planning Your Paper
- Choosing Your Topic
- Narrowing a broad topic
- Broadening a narrow topic
- Organizing Your Research
- Taking good notes
- The Thesis Statement
- Thesis statement formulas
- Example thesis statements
- Preparing Your Ideas
- Brainstorming
- Chapter 3
- Conducting Research
- What Counts as a Source?
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
- Evaluating sources
- Bias
- Go to the Library
- Books, books, books!
- Internet Research
- You can't believe everything you read on the Internet
- Concluding Your Research
- Chapter 4
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- What is Plagiarism?
- Obvious plagiarism
- Paraphrasing and summarizing
- Consequences of plagiarism
- Citing Your Sources
- Citation styles
- Quoting and misquoting
- Check yourself
- Chapter 5
- Introductions
- An Introduction's Purpose
- The inverted pyramid
- The hook
- Completing your introduction
- Chapter 6
- The Body
- Supporting Your Thesis
- Backing up your claims
- Structuring Your Paper
- How should you organize your ideas?
- Paragraphing
- Writing Style
- Research paper style
- Types of sentences
- Incorporating quotes
- (Maybe) not just words
- Keep in mind
- Chapter 7
- The Conclusion
- Ideas in Your Conclusion
- Restating your thesis
- Going over key points
- Making it Memorable
- Loose ends vs. big ideas
- Conclusion techniques
- Chapter 8
- Editing and Revising
- Editing vs. Revising
- Questions to ask while you are revising
- Editing techniques
- Chapter 9
- Common Writing Mistakes
- Things to Watch Out For
- Homophones
- Grammar tips and tricks.
- The Power of Less
- The word count issue
- Writing concisely
- Chapter 10
- The Finishing Touches
- The Title
- Formatting Your Paper
- Why formatting matters
- How to format
- Afterwards
- Don't stop learning
- Conclusion
- Author's Note
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- About the Author.
