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Research paper packet 2019(Recovered)

Requirements for research paper:
2019 Guidelines

Length:​ 3-4 pages (no title page) FAILURE TO MEET LENGTH WILL CAUSE A LETTER
GRADE DEDUCTION!

● Times New Roman 12-point font, double spaced, MLA format throughout
● 1 Works Cited Page: 5-source minimum; at least one book. See directions below.
On D-Day:

● Turn in a hard copy of the paper, using MLA. This means that each paper must include
the works cited page.

● Staple the pages of each final copy together.
● You have a manila folder to turn in your work.

o Y​ our name is written on the outside.
o Copy of the final paper stapled with the works cited page
o And the following material in the following order:

▪ In front is the completed outline
▪ Rough Draft (both versions if you did more than one.)
▪ Handwritten revisions on the draft/copy of peer edit worksheet with

BOTH edits
▪ Copy of the rubric with your name on it
▪ Note cards (digital) this will be visible to me online

Note: failure to follow directions will result in a m​ inimum​ of 5 points deducted from the final
grade.

Grading and Due Dates:
The final paper counts as two test grades. T​ here are no extensions for any of the research

paper deadlines​. Due dates on any assignments through notecards will receive zeroes in my
grade book. If you are absent on the date an assignment is due, you should email it to me.
Assignments, such as note cards which cannot be emailed, should be delivered to me through the
school’s front office no later than 3:00 pm on the due date. PLEASE DO NOT HAVE
SOMEONE PUT THEM IN MY MAILBOX OR LEAVE ANYTHING ON MY DESK.

Subsequent late assignments (rough draft, final paper) will suffer a letter grade penalty
for each day it is late.

FINAL SOURCES:
● FIVE (5) cited sources in paper
● ONE (1) cited source must be a book
● FOUR (4) cited sources must be from the library’s resource section online or from
google scholar or from a site that does NOT end in .com

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Formatting Bibliography cards

As you find potential sources of information for your paper, you should make notes about the
sources in an organized way. You will start by making b​ ibliography cards​ for each source, including
all the data you will need to create the bibliography entry for that source. The basic information you
will need includes:

o author’s name (not all sources give the author’s name BUT it may be buried at the end)
o title of the article, website, book, or play. (If it is a book or full-length play, underline the title;

if the source is an article, a website, a poem, or a short play, put the title in quotation marks.)
o the city where the book was published (if a book)
o the name of the publishing company/original publication in which the article appeared
o date of publication
o date you accessed the information
o the web address if the source is from the internet/database

Note that the required information varies a bit for different kinds of sources. Check your M​ LA
Guidelines b​ ooklet to see what is required for a newspaper or magazine article, or for various kinds of
on-line sources. Entries for reference books can also require more information than the basic book
format.

Notecards

(adapted from h​ ttp://www.infoplease.com/homework/t4takingnotes.html​) and
http://www.ecps.org/block/Research%20Resources/Research%20Paper%20Note%20Cards.ppt.​

1. On each index card, be sure to note the source, including the volume number (if there is one)
and the page number. If you wind up using that idea in your paper, you will have the
information about the source ready to put in your in text citation. If your bibliography cards
are completed correctly, you should just need to add the NUMBER that relates to the source
on your index card per fact.

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2. If you copy something directly from a book without putting it in your own words, put quotation marks

around it so that you know it is an exact quotation. This will help you to avoid plagiarism.

Check out the differences between these two note cards for a research paper on baseball:  

Good note card:

● Lists source (World Book, Volume 2, page
133)

Includes heading or subtopic
Star players become national heroes  ●
● Is limited to one fact
Many Americans could name every major league player, his  ●
batting average, and other accomplishments. p.133  Has personal note/question 
(What batting records were set?) 

Bad note card:  

  ● Source not indicated in top right corner
Baseball becomes popular 

Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) outfielder one of the great  ● Heading too vague
all-time players. Another star was Honus Wagner, a  ● Too many facts on one card
bowlegged shortstop.  ● No name after quotation 

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America 
had better learn baseball." 

 

4. Before you sit down to write your rough draft, organize your note cards by subtopic (you can
write headings on the cards) and make an outline.

 

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WORKS CITED (​ MLA 7 format)

This will be the final list of sources that you use in your paper, arranged alphabetically.

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