Assignment 6.1: Review Chapters 6 and 7 in preperation of the final draft (project).

Chapter 6-----Doing Research

Reading Critically

Critical reading is understanding key points of a text and reading through what you don't understand. Evaluating what you read. To read critically, go through some major points:

--Previewing

--Annoting

--Summarizing

--Synthesizing

Taking Notes

Taking notes play a big role when writing. This consists of writing or using your computer to compile what you've gathered for your research paper.

Remember, annotating involves making notes in the margins of a specific text. Note-taking keeps notes about sources, ideas and information for a single essay or project.

Avoiding Plagiarism
I don't have to go through this since we're all adults....AVOID PLAGIARISM!



Finding Relevant Material
There are hundreads of useful online resources such as the Internet, Charter College's online database, and NetLibrary. When searching for a particular topic, try to expand your search. Now if you come back with too much, then limit it by using keywords.


If using the Internet, use a couple search engines such as google or yahoo. One may give you a link that one doesn't have and search through it. There are alot of junk out there so be wise when using these engines. When stating facts or statistics, I recommend using a .edu or .gov instead of using someones page made


Conducting Interviews and Surveys

Tips for Interviewing:
--Plan ahead for you Interview

--Ask good questions

--Be Felxible

--Consider using a tape recorder

--Record the date of the interview, full name and credentials or position of the person you interviewed.

Tips to consider when surveying:

--Composing relevant questions

--Decide the distibution of survey...orally or written?

--Deciding how many people you want to survey

-Considering if it's useful to survey such as gender, race, age, religion etc...

-Steps to protect their privacy

Chapter 7-----Documenting your Sources

Compiling a Preliminary Bibliography:
You must gather information from sources used such as books, Internet, article(s), periodicals or electronic resources. See page 182 to see pointers on what kind of info to look for.

Citing Sources:
I will be citing sources using the MLA (Modern Language Association)form. Make sure to cite your source properly!This is important when you are using someone elses quotation, an idea from someone elses work and any facts or statistics.

Preparing Your Final Draft:
Preparing your final draft takes time so don't rush this process because it may leave some of the big points(that you thought small)out. Read it once, have someone else read it, step away and see if needs furthur editing. That's it.