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Basically, writing a research paper may be broken into | Basically, writing a research paper may be broken into six steps: | ||
* Planning Your Research | * Planning Your Research | ||
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* Evaluating Sources | * Evaluating Sources | ||
* Using Sources without Plagiarizing | * Using Sources without Plagiarizing | ||
* Outlinig/Organizing Information | |||
* Writing the Research Paper | * Writing the Research Paper | ||
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When taking notes, try to paraphrase as much as possible to prevent plagiarism. Remember to input quotation marks for words copied exactly as you read them. All excerts from other sources must be cited. Also, any ideas taken from other sources must be cited. | When taking notes, try to paraphrase as much as possible to prevent plagiarism. Remember to input quotation marks for words copied exactly as you read them. All excerts from other sources must be cited. Also, any ideas taken from other sources must be cited. | ||
==Outlining\Organizing Information== | |||
Take all paraphrased notes and gathered information and input it into an outline to ensure the organizational flow, tone, and the location of main points to hold the reader's interest. | |||
== Writing the research Paper == | == Writing the research Paper == | ||