2. 1. In what format will the paper have to be written? MLA (Modern Language Association) 2. How long does the paper have to be? 3-5 full pages 3. What kind of sources do we have to use? Books, Periodicals and the Internet 4. What kind of sources can we NOT use? General or online encyclopedias (wikipedia) 5. What is the minimum number of sources we have to have? Five

3. 6. What topics do I have to research for the paper? The Medieval Period or select topics associated with that movement. 7. Does it have to be typed? YES 8. Do we have to turn in note cards and bibliography cards? NO 9. What else do we have to turn in with the paper? A Works Cited page. 10. Do we have to turn in a rough draft? Will it be graded? Does it have to be typed? YES. YES. YES. 11. What if a paper is late? Can I email you my paper? If a paper is turned in after the class period on the due date, it is ten points off. It is twenty points off the second day, 30 points off the third day, etc. Do NOT e-mail me your paper.

4. 12. Do we have to document our sources? Yes. This means you must give credit to your sources in your paper using parenthetical, or “in-text” citations. 13. When is the outline due? Does it need to be typed? 3/10 or 3/11, depending on which day you’re in class. YES. 14. When is the rough draft due? Does it need to be typed? 3/26 or 3/27, depending on which day you’re in class. YES. **Are we going to the library to type the outline and rough draft? YES; on 3/7, 3/10, 3/11, 3/12, 3/13 and 3/14 depending on when you’re in class. 15. When is the final draft due? 4/7 or 4/8, depending on which day you’re in class. YES.

5. 17. How much will the paper count in all? Several daily grades, one quiz grade and two test grades. 18. What resources are available to me? SHS Library, your public library, and the Internet. 19. What sorts of textual evidence can I use? Direct quotes and paraphrasing, all of which must be properly documented by MLA standards. No summarizing, please. 20. Can we use first or second person anywhere in the paper? NO. This is a formal paper, which means you cannot use I, me, we, us, our, you, your (or any forms of these words).

6. A thesis statement is a one sentence statement of the purpose of your paper. It usually appears somewhere in the introduction to your paper. Research papers are formal papers, which means that you cannot use first or second person personal pronouns. EXAMPLE THESIS STATEMENTS: William Shakespeare, Amy Tan and Katherine Anne Porter all use turbulent relationships between mother and child to highlight the desperate need for peace between one generation and another. Because the American people had prior notice, the casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could have been avoided.

7. Constitutional questions should not be settled according to the intentions of the men who wrote the original document. An examination of the decades of overproduction that preceded the Great Depression and major aspects of our ballooning global system suggests that present-day promoters of "limitless capitalism" may be celebrating much too soon. A close examination of the Lizzie Borden case reveals that crimes of passion continue both to live in infamy, and to serve as a way for perpetrators to gain fame and fortune.

8. Paraphrasing and Summarizing Definition of Paraphrasing: A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words. Include the ideas mentioned in the original passage Follow the original order of ideas Keep the length approximately the same as the original Do not add your own thoughts or views Document, document, document!!

9. Paraphrasing and Summarizing Original Text: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.” Correctly Paraphrased Text: An egg by the name of Humpty Dumpty was perched upon a wall. For some reason, Humpty Dumpty had a catastrophic fall off of this partition. Horses and men, which belonged to the King, tried unsuccessfully to repair the broken egg.

10. Internal Documentation What is Parenthetical Documentation? Parenthetical Documentation is giving credit to your sources in your research paper, even on information you paraphrased or summarized. How often should I document? Every time you mention information that you yourself did not come up with, ie: information you found somewhere else. How much of my paper should be documented? You do not have to document your topic or transition sentences because you wrote them. The rest of every body paragraph must be from a source, and must be documented. How do you document? To document, you put important information in parenthesis after the information you have quoted or paraphrased.

11. Internal Documentation What if a paragraph is in my own words and from only one source? If an entire paragraph came from the same source, and you paraphrase the entire paragraph, you only have to document once at the end of the paragraph.

12. Internal Documentation How do I know what to put in the parenthesis when I am documenting? When you document a BOOK source WITH AN AUTHOR, you put the author’s last name and the page number. Example: (Smith 3) When you document a BOOK source WITHOUT AN AUTHOR, you put the title of the book and the page number. (Germany the Beautiful 12-15) When you document an INTERNET source WITH AN AUTHOR, you put the author’s last name and the page number. Example: (Jones 3-5) When you document an INTERNET source WITHOUT AN AUTHOR, you put a variation of the title of the article and the page number. Example: (“German Food” 2-5) When you document an INTERVIEW, you use the last name of the person you interviewed and the word “interview” in the parenthesis. Example: (Schaefer Interview)

13. Internal Documentation Works Cited “Food in Germany.” Internet. 6 February 2007. http://www.germanfood.com German Culture. Berlin: Deutschland Publishing, 2007. Schaefer, Laurie. Personal Interview. 5 February 2007. Wooten, Meredith. I Love Kraut. Pfafftown: Tabor Publishers, 1999. Zimmermeyer, Dave. “Soccer, the Unknown Sport.” Internet. 3 February 2007. http://www.kickball.net

14. Internal Documentation Food is an interesting aspect of Germany’s culture. This first and second sentence of the paragraph are from an Internet source without an author, which is very common for Internet sources. The Internet source is only three pages long, and you know that because the printout tells you in the upper right hand corner( ) The next two sentences are from a brochure, which is always documented as if it is a book. Often, because brochures are written by advertising agencies, you will not have an author, so remember that you just use the title, which you can usually find on the front cover of the brochure ( ) This one sentence is from an interview with one of your favorite teachers who traveled to Germany; this teacher gave some wonderful insight into the food of the country and how much she loved it ( ) The final three sentences are from a book with an author. You found this great information on food to finish the paragraph. The page numbers that you used were pages 1121-1123 ( ) Many spectators at the popular sports in Germany enjoy eating these wonderful foods.

15. Internal Documentation Sporting life in Germany is exciting and very competitive. This entire paragraph came from one source and a range of pages. It was hard to find any other source on the sports in Germany, but you did find this great website that provided all the information that you needed. You did a great job of paraphrasing and summarizing all of the information on the sports, making sure to put it all in your own words and still capture the important information. The website that you printed out was twelve pages long but you only used the first six pages of the website. Good luck with documenting this paragraph and making sure that you get everything correct ( ) Sports in Germany are often played on many of their national holidays and festivals.

16. General Info. About Works Cited: The Works Cited page is the last page of your research paper. It does not count in the required page numbers for the paper. The Works Cited page is not numbered in the upper right hand corner of the page. The title of the page, Works Cited, is centered at the top of the page. Everything on the page is double-spaced, never more than that. The entries on the Works Cited page are in alphabetical order by author.

17. General Info. About Works Cited: You do not indent the first line of a bibliographic entry, but you do indent the second line of a bibliographic entry. It is the opposite of a paragraph in an essay where you indent the first line. All of your sources must be documented in your paper, so be sure to put only the sources you used on your Works Cited page. Every period, comma, and colon are very important, so do not get careless when you create your entries. ***USE NOODLE TOOLS, NOODLE BIB, EASYBIB, ETC.

18. Book Entries: For a Book Entry with an author, you need to find the following information and put it in this order: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. Publishing City: Publisher, Year Published. If the book does not have an author, you begin with the title. For a cultural encyclopedia, you add the name of your country in quotation marks between the author’s last name and title of the book.

19. Book Entries: If you have two authors for a book, put them in alphabetical order by their last name, putting the first person in order by last name then first name, and put the other person in order by first name then last name. If you have more than two authors for a book, list only the first person alphabetically, then write the Latin phrase et al, which means And all the rest. Brochures are documented just like a book without an author.

20. Website Entries: For a website without an author, you need to find the following information and put it in this order: “Title of Website.” Internet. Day Month Year. The date you put in the bibliographic entry is the date you found the website and printed it. If you can find an author for the website, you use the author’s last name and then his/her first name, just like a book entry.

21. Website Entries: The title of the website is usually printed in the upper left- hand corner of the page. The website address is usually printed in the lower left- hand corner of the page. The date you accessed the website is usually printed in the lower right- hand corner of the page. This is why it is important to print from the Internet since you won’t get this information if you cut and paste into a Word document.