Research Paper Test Study Guide

Research Paper Test Study Guide

RESEARCH PAPER TEST STUDY GUIDE

Part 1: Based on power point, fill in the following steps under the appropriate Roman numerals in an outline format:

Supporting Details (Capital Letters)

State the ObjectiveWrite the Draft

Prepare a Working OutlineOutline the Paper

Prepare the Final PaperWrite a Preliminary Bibliography

Narrow the TopicTake Notes

Select a Subject

Subtopics (Arabic Numbers)

Draft ConclusionDraft Body

Select a subject of interestNot an Indisputable Fact

Record sources using noodle toolsDivide thesis into subheadings

ParaphraseSummary

  1. Planning the Research

A.

1.

2. Understand the limits of assignment

B.

C.

1.

2. Not a personal opinion

  1. Doing the Research

A.

1.

B.

1. Type thesis at top

C.

1. Direct Quote

2.

3.

  1. Writing the Paper

A.

1. Organize note cards in logical order

a. Chronological

b. Order of Degree

c. Cause and Effect

B.

1. Draft Introduction

2.

3.

4. Revise the First Draft

C. Prepare the Final Paper

Part 2—Thesis Statements

  1. Thesis statements should be specific with an angle or specific ______.
  2. A more specific thesis consists of the purpose plus ______(2 words).
  3. Your thesis is the ______of your entire ______.
  4. Your thesis should be placed in the ______sentence of the ______paragraph and also restated in ______words and structure in the ______paragraph.
  5. Thesis statements should never written in ______person or as a question.

Part 3---General Research Questions

  1. Three primary types of research papers are ______, analytic, and ______.
  2. If information can be found in more than 3 forms of print, then it is known as ______and does not need to be ______in paper.
  3. If you paraphrase or summarize someone’s else’s words, you still must ______unless the information is ______.
  4. A ______is written in your own words but only restates the main points of a passage, page, chapter, etc.
  5. A ______is word for word and must have ______marks surrounding it, and it must be ______.
  6. A ______is written completely in your own words and restates the main points plus a few additional details.
  7. If documenting a paraphrase or a summary, you must place the ______at the _____ of the summary or paraphrase.
  8. ______devices are used to help your paper flow and to connect thoughts from sentence to the next as well as to connect one paragraph to the next.
  9. If using a direct quote, do not leave them hanging; always provide a ______with the direct quote in addition to a citation.

Part 4---Format of paper

  1. What font type and size are MLA required?
  2. What spacing is MLA required for a research paper?
  3. The paper contain ______margins for top, right, left, and bottom.
  4. Most computers have to have margins reset because most Microsoft Word documents have a default margin set at ______.
  5. Headers are required on ______of text plus on the ______page.
  6. Headers consist of ______and ______located _____ inch in the top _____ corner of the page.
  7. Headings are placed on the ______page only.
  8. Headings are ___ lines and are to be in a particular order consisting of ______, teacher’s name, ______, and ______.
  9. The date is to be in the following order of _____ first then ______then year without any ______or punctuation.

Part 5---Format of Works Cited Page

  1. Title is ______and placed ____ inch from the top of the page.
  2. Title is not ______or surrounded by ______.
  3. Only the ______are capitalized.
  4. Entries are organized ______.
  5. If an entry is more than one line, each additional line in the same entry is ______.
  6. MLA 7th edition no longer requires ______on works cited pages.
  7. All margins are _____ inch.
  8. Size and Font for a Works Cited Page is ____ size and ______font.

Part 6—Parenthetical Citations

  1. If using an extended quote, you must begin with a ______that is followed by _____(punctuation).
  2. Then, you will set the extended quote off from rest of paragraph by indenting _____ spaces or 2 _____ of .25 each.
  3. Extended quotes do not contain ______and the period is placed directly ______the quote and ______the ______.
  4. Extended quotes are only needed if you are citing a quote that is more than ______lines and less than ______lines.
  5. A basic citations includes the ______and a ______, unless a ______is not provided.
  6. If you do not have an author, you are only to place a ______of an article or ______and a ______if it is provided.
  7. You are never to place ______in a citation.
  8. A period is placed ______a basic citation within a paper.
  9. If you mention the author in a citation, you only place a ______, if one is provided.
  10. If you mention the author in a citation and a ______is not provided, you put ______.
  11. If your source does not have an author and you mention the title of the article or book within your paper, you only provide a ______in the citation, unless one is not provided.
  12. If your source contains two-three authors, you place the authors’ ______in the order ______and a page number, if ______in the parenthetical citation.
  13. If your works cited page contains two titles written by the same author, you must indicate the author, the ______, and a page number (if provided) in the citation.
  14. If you are citing a quote within a quote, you no longer have to locate the ______source citation; instead you put ______in plus the ______where you found the information.
  15. If you are citing source contain more than 3 authors, you put the ______plus the Italian phrase ______followed by a page number, if provided.
  16. If you are citing a title of an article or book, you only provide a ______version of the title.
  17. If you are citing an article title, you must put ______around the title.
  18. If you are citing a book, magazine title, newspaper title, etc., you must ______the title.
  19. Your citations must identically match the information located on you ______page.

Part 8—Online Note Cards

  1. Your tags are also your ______and you are allowed to repeat them.
  2. Do you use MLA starter or advanced on noodle tools?
  3. Multiple word tags need to have ______around them or they need to be separated by ______; if not, multiple word tags will be jumbled and reorganized ______and become very confusing.
  4. You can only have either one ______or one ______per note card, but you may add notes in ______for every card.
  5. Your titles need to ______for every card and should be a short phrase identifying the ______on each card.

Part 9—Demons

  1. If you use ______or ______person, you will be given ____ freebies and then a ____ point deduction. If you use two more than, you lose ______points.
  2. Correct the following to show how they should appear if used in your paper:
  3. don’t = ______F. u = ______
  4. alright = ______G. nite = ______
  5. eachother = ______H. a lot = ______
  6. they’re = ______
  7. he would of passed = ______
  1. Ain’t, gonna, and cause are examples of ______and not allowed.
  2. Why should you avoid the use of it?
  3. Why should you not use the word things?
  4. amazing, happy, good, bad, sad, etc. should not be used because they are ______words.
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