2/8 Tuesday's Notes and Homework

Hello Guys and Dolls!

Today in class we continued learning about our research papers. We started by writing down the 10 Research Vocabulary words. They are the following (if you do not have these in your notebook, I suggest you copy these down!)

Research Vocabulary Words

1. abstract: a short summary of an article or book

2. summary: expressing or covering the main points

    briefly

3. paraphrase: a restatement or rewording of a text, to

give meaning in different words

4. article: a contribution, by one or more authors,

published in a periodical

5. research: the collecting of information about a subject

6. citation: complete information about a specific item;

                book, article or other format, which enables you

to identify and locate it

7. bibliography: an alphabetical list of books or articles

you have used for research, a group of citations

8. plagiarism: using the ideas or writing of another author and

                using them as your own

9. source: anything or place from which something is obtained

10. cite: to list the important information needed to find the full

                text of a source; this gives credit to the authors of

                articles, books, web sites, or other types of materials

Credible and Non-credible Sources

We then went over what makes a source credible. Credible sources were things like newspapers, news journals, diaries, interviews, published factual books, fact based magazines. Things that were not credible were things like gossip magazines, wikipedia, and any websites where the person writing it did not have a credible background on the subject. We will learn more about this on Thursday.

Paraphrasing

We also discussed how to use the information we find from our sources to help support our arguments. We learned that it's ok to use direct quotes from a source, as long as you give them the proper credit in your paper for that quote.

We also discussed how you can paraphrase these quotes, by making them your own. You still need to cite them as the place where you got the information in your bibliography, however you do not need to state right then and there in the paper ("As stated in July 18th New York Post, Julie Blahblah said...")

Paraphrasing is taking a direct quote and making it your own. For example:

Direct quote: "New York City police officers have incredibly difficult and dangerous jobs considering they deal with crimes and criminals on a daily basis."

Paraphrased quote: Officers of the NYPD deal with many dangers, due to their frequent interactions with criminals.

HOMEWORK!

Tonight for homework you need to make flash cards/notecards for the 10 Research Vocabulary words given to you today. On one side of the card, write the word, and on the other write the definition.

See you all tomorrow!

- Ms. C