Research Paper Project Steps 7 and 8

Bellringer Go to eBackpack MP 4 bellringer folder Directions---Use our class website to fill in the blanks on announcements about our learning goals and assignments. Make sure that you complete your work by the deadlines. If you don’t, work on it for homework so that you can meet the deadlines and complete your work.

Continuing the Research Process…Turning Research into Writing! LEQ: How do I use questions to help me unlock a research topic, write an informational research paper, and cite sources?

Today’s Goals: 1. Complete the Synthesizing Data sheet. 2. Compete the Question Outline Graphic Organizer. 3. Begin to fill in your research information using the Research Paper Overview. 4. Figure out if you need to find more information in order to explain all of your question subheadings very clearly to your readers.

Open all worksheets in Pages so you can expand as needed Do a great job with these steps---the more you think and make connections, the better your research paper will be.

Step 7 Synthesize the data/information from your sources. You will not find “direct answers” all of the time, but will have to combine and consider the information that you are getting from all of your sources and draw some conclusions about what you have learned in order to answer your questions. Use the #7 Synthesizing Data sheet.

Step 8 Go back to your list of questions. Group the questions that are related to each other. These question groups will become the basis for the body of your research paper. You should have at least 6 groups of questions, so that you have at least 6 paragraphs in the body of your paper.

The Overall Question—this will turn into your Thesis Statement Now that you’ve read your sources and learned a lot of new information, it’s time to take your synthesis of this data and ask yourself: What overall question covers everything that I’ve learned in my research? All of your questions should fit under this one “Umbrella Question.”

Keep in mind… You will be teaching your readers about the information that you have learned. Use the Question Outline Graphic Organizer to plan how your will arrange the 6 question groups under your umbrella question.

How do you use your Question outline and your source sheets to begin to develop your paper? Carefully look at the Research Paper Overview sheet (part of #8). You will see how your paraphrased research becomes important and builds the body of your Informational Research Paper.

Lesson Summation: Submit #7 and #8 to eBackpack Make sure that they are saved in your files.