Submit your term paper ( APA style ), your rough draft, and all your other preparatory work by the due date

NOTE:

1. Submit your term paper ( APA style ), your rough draft, and all your other preparatory work by the due date.

2. The supervisor will make comments on the FIRST DRAFT. It is your responsibility to revise and edit it.

3. Do not allow yourself to be accused of plagiarism.

4. Your research paper should be based on one of the topic choices (see page 3). The paper must include at least four sources.

5. Word Count: 1500 words

Approved Sources and Categories:

Print Sources

· Books

· Scholarly Journals

· Dictionaries

· Encyclopedias

· Interviews

· Textbooks

· Surveys

Electronic Sources

· Electronic Databases

· Websites (ending in org. edu.gov.)

· Electronic encyclopedias

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SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

1) Sources

All the sources you have used MUST be printed and submitted.

Sources should be annotated and numbered clearly according to your Reference List.

2) The first rough draft

Your corrections, revisions and any changes you have made (with your teacher’s approval) should be clearly indicated. The pages should be stapled together.

3) The final version of the term paper/report

Process:

(Steps 1, 2, 3)

STEP 1: Narrowing and Focusing your Topic

Topic Choice: # ______

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STEP 2: Previewing and Reading your Sources

You must choose a minimum of 4 sources. You may use more sources if you like.

You must preview the sources by looking at titles, headings, subheadings, tables of contents, abstracts, descriptors, etc. You can ask your instructor specific questions, about the sources, after you have previewed them, BUT it is NOT the instructor’s responsibility to preview the source.

This part of the process takes a lot of time. There is no short cut. You must be prepared to spend many hours reading at this stage.

Special Note on Previewing and Reading Sources (See Step 5 for more information)

When you preview your sources and when you begin critically reading your sources, you should ANNOTATE them. Below is an example of 1 annotation in a source. Each article should have many annotations.

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STEP 3: Writing a Thesis /Purpose Statement

(Steps 4, 5, 6, & 7)

STEP 4: The Preliminary Outline: This is just the beginning step to determine how or where to include ideas in your term paper. Later, your outline will be longer (especially in the Body).

Title: ____________________________________________________________________________

Thesis/Purpose Statement: Modify thesis statement as needed.

_________________________________________________________________________________

INTRODUCTION (opening statements, facts, figures, definitions, ‘hook’ etc.) Remember to write ONLY main ideas!

Body:

I. (BACKGROUND) _______________________________________________________

A. ___________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________

II. ______________________________________________________________________

A. ____________________________________________________________________

B. ____________________________________________________________________

C. ____________________________________________________________________

III. ______________________________________________________________________

A. ____________________________________________________________________

B. ____________________________________________________________________

C. ____________________________________________________________________

CONCLUSION (It can include your opinions, thoughts and ideas about what you have read and written.)

STEP 5: Writing Note Cards

There are two types of note cards for your report: source note cards and information note cards.

Note cards contain ideas and information from other sources. You will use the ideas you write on your note cards to write the rough draft of your report. It is therefore, important for you to write clear and concise notes.

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Sample Note Card:

STEP 6: Final Outline

This is an example. For a term paper, the outline will be longer than this (especially in the Body) so you should write it on your own paper. Use this outline to help you write the Contents page of your term paper.

INTRODUCTION