1. How to Write Source Cards for Research Papers The Research Paper

2. Essentials of a Good Paragraph Thesis statement –One or two sentences in the end of the introductory paragraph that clarify the main ideas and lays out focus of the entire essay Example: –While both sides fought the Civil War over the issue of slavery, the North fought for moral reasons while the South fought to preserve its own institutions.

3. Essentials of a Good Paragraph Main idea –The first sentence in each paragraph; they serve to control each paragraph. Details –The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. –Describe or explain the main idea.

4. Essentials of Research Papers Plagiarism –Using or imitating the language and thoughts of another author. Copying and pasting from the internet Any phrase that contains three words or more from any source

5. Essentials of Research Papers Quotations –must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author. Paraphrasing –putting a passage from source material into your own words. –A paraphrase must give credit to the original source. –usually shorter than the original passage Summarizing –putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). –Necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original source.

6. Sources and Resources The Sources include the following: –Internet, Database, Textbook, Book, Magazine –Research papers must have a minimum of three different sources which will appear as WORKS CITED entries. The Source card –contains a source you plan to use to strengthen the statements in your paragraph.

7. Sources and Resources The Resource card –Contains the information (summary, paraphrase, or quote from the source you are using.)

8. Types of sources Database –A collection of organized online sources that include information from books, magazines, newspaper articles. Types of databases: FirstSearch, Information Please Online source –Includes information from web sites –Must have a date, an author, and a title in order to be legitimate –Avoid.com online sources MLA Style –A set of national guidelines that explain formatting for research –Papers. Most colleges ask students to use this style for papers. Works Cited –A listing of the sources used in the research paper

9. Decoding Internet Sources.com = commerce, business.edu = educational institution.org = organization.gov = government.html= hyper text markup language

10. WIKIPEDIA SOURCE CITE THIS PAGE http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macbeth&oldid=176726711

11. Sample Internet Source Card Source #1 Linder, Douglass. "The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: A Commentary” 8 Oct. 1997. 10 November 2008. 1. Author(s) 2. Title of web site 3. Date last updated or created 4. Date of access 5..

12. Sample Internet Source Card Resource #1 “ Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to exhibit similar unusual behavior. When his own nostrums failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the girls, suggested that the girls' problems might have a supernatural origin. The widespread belief that witches targeted children made the doctor's diagnosis seem increasing likely.”Ann PutnamMercy Lewis Main idea(s): Children affected

13. Sample Textbook Source Card Textbook Title of Textbook Edition (if applicable). Editor(s) name(s) listed Ed., then first name, then last. City Published (include state if city is unfamiliar): Publisher. Copyright date (most recent). Pages of selection The Language of Literature. Evanston: McDougal Littell. 2006. Pages 323-416

14. Sample Book Source Card Frye, Northrop. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967. Book Author’s Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

15. Sample Periodical Source Card Article Author’s Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title. Issue Number and or Volume (Publication Year): Pages of Article. Periodical Kimbrough, Robert. "Macbeth: Prisoner of Gender," Shakespeare Studies. Vol.16 (1983), pp.175-190.