Tuesday, January 20, 2015

• Today I talked about your research notes and ways to improve them.
• The most important thing is to remember that you should be thinking about every quote, statistic, or source you write down and putting your own thoughts with that note. 
• How are you going to use the note?
• How does it change your thoughts about the topic?
• How will this note be used to prove or support your thesis.
• Essentially you should be thinking about how you are going to write your paper. 

• Format your source into the proper MLA works cited format. That way you do not have to go back and look them up again.

• Then we discussed how to use an outline. We went over the outlining handout. The most important part with the outline is understanding that this is the "what" you are going to include in your paper. Once you start writing your paper you only have to focus on the "how" part of writing. You will know what you are going to write so the last thing, and often the hardest, is to figure out how you are going to write it. 
• You MUST complete an outline of your paper. It needs to be started by the end of this week. The final outline will be due Thursday, January 29th. 
• Your outline will be done in a Google Doc. You need to create a new document and title it Your Name-Research Outline. It should look like this: Tony Summers-Research Outline. The document needs to be shared with me as soon as you create it.