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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives 1

General Objective: Understand how to plan and begin working on a research assignment.

The instructional material and multimedia assets in this topic will help you master the following objectives:

  • Understand how to schedule the steps for preparing a research paper.
  • Understand how to find a topic of appropriate scope for the assignment.
  • Understand how to create effective notes while researching the paper.
  • Review the paradigms, or typical patterns, for different types of papers.
  • Determine the components of a typical research paper.

Learning Objectives 2

General Objective: Understand how to draft, write, format, and edit a research paper.

The instructional material and multimedia assets in this topic will help you master the following objectives:

  • Understand how to focus a paper & argument, refine the thesis statement, and write an academic title.
  • Understand how to draft a paper.
  • Identify and understand how to avoid sexist and biased language.
  • Understand how to write the introduction, body, and conclusion of a paper.
  • Understand how to format a paper according to the appropriate style guidelines.
  • Understand how to revise, edit, and proofread a paper

Weblinks

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  • Language Tip of the Week
    June Casagrande, author of Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies. This site offers a useful language, usage and style tips on a weekly basis.
  • Dave's ESL Café
    Professor Dave Sperling This site offers a wide range of resources for students and teachers of English as a second language, including language learning resources, job postings, and discussion forums.
  • MLA Style
    This page includes a description of Modern Language Association (MLA) style guidelines for documenting a research paper with a link to frequently asked questions about the style.
  • CMS Style
    This site includes a description of Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) guidelines for documenting with a comprehensive Q&A section.
  • Research and Documenting Sources
    Purdue University Online Writing Lab This section of the Purdue University OWL offers guidelines for finding, evaluating, and documenting sources, as well as advice on writing research papers.
  • Internet Public Library
    University of Michigan School of Information This site offers an interactive tutorial on identifying the argument of an essay.
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet
    The Library of California Created and maintained by librarians, this site offers a searchable annotated subject directory of Web resources that have been selected and evaluated.
  • American Memory
    Library of Congress This site offers links to the digital versions of selected holdings relevant to American history and culture, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, and recorded sound and moving pictures.
  • NYPL Digital Gallery
    New York Public Library This site offers access to more than 275,000 digitized images from the collections of the New York Public Library. You can search collections or browse by topic to find illustrations, photographs, posters, maps, and manuscripts.
  • The New York Times
    This online version of the The New York Times includes searchable archives.