1. A QUICK APPROACH to Writing an Unbound Report
with Mrs. Leslie and Ms. Thornton

2. What is an Unbound Report
A report is an organized paper that involves research on a topic
An unbound report is short and does not have a binder and is usually bound together with a paperclip or staple

3. Getting Started I must: Select a topic
Research my Topic-Online encyclopedia, magazines, websites, other
Develop a Thesis-A sentence that will define your paper
Make an Outline-Make an outline of how your paper will flow-Intro, Body and Conclusion-You should have four paragraphs

4. Beware of Plagiarism Do not buy, borrow or steal someone else’s work
You must give credit, where credit is due

5. How Plagiarism occurs Copying and pasting from a website
Using your brother’s old report for your own paper
Changing a few words in a document and calling it your own

6. How to avoid Plagiarism?
Read your research and decide how you would tell the information in your OWN WORDS
Do not go to a website and copy the information and then paste it into your report

7. What does Plagiarism look like?

8. What should my report contain?
Title page
The body
Citation page

9. Title Page

10. Body

11. Works Cited