Posted: December 5th, 2016
ISearch Paper The ISearch Paper tells the story of your research. Your group presentation will require research, both in and out of a library. The ISearch Paper tells the story of: Where you found information (UTDâ s Library, home library, the Internet, a personal interview) How you located it (An online search of News Watch, The Humanities Index, Issues and Answers pamphlets, etc.) What you found (A summary of the relevant information in the source) The relevance of the information (How you can apply the information to your study of American history) An ISearch Paper is an extensive, detailed account of your research. Unlike more traditional research papers, however, it is not formal. Instead, the paper is written in firstperson (â Iâ ) in clear, conversational Englishin your own voice. Avoid the use of stiff, academic language in this paper. Your purpose is not to impress anyone or sound like a scholar. This should be refreshing to you and allow you to write as though you were just explaining your research to someone in the class. An ISearch Paper is not an informative or persuasive research paper followed by a bibliography. Its primary purpose is to clearly document your research efforts and the thinking you did about your sources. I want to give you credit for your hard work. I also want to see how well you can locate, summarize, analyze and synthesize information. I want to see your ability to think critically about sources, to evaluate how credible or relevant a source is to your needs. All these skills are useful beyond this course. They are vital to your continuing educational progressand they form the foundation of effective workplace and responsible citizenship skills. As in a more traditional research paper, you will need to include specific information about sources. I still want you to provide your reader (the instructors, or anyone else who might be interested in your research) the same information about your sources that would be found in a research paper. In fact I still want a bibliography of sources at the end of the ISearch Paper. The main difference is that I want to see the process by which you found your sources and what you did with them when you found them; not just the product. I am even interested in the false trails and dead ends you meet along the way. So if you canâ t find a source youâ re seekingor if the source you find is useless to your research purposetell me about it anyway. I will give you credit for the effort, at least, but this is not an excuse not to try and find all the ten types of sources. To illustrate the difference between a more traditional research paper and the ISearch Paper and to see the complete assignment click on the assignment PDF above to access the entire assignment Minimum Length: 510 doublespaced typed pages; you should have approximately 9001800 words in your narrative. The Bibliography is separate from the narrative. ISearch Paper Grading Criteria: Follows Purpose and Audience Guidelines for Assignment Maintains Topic Focus Includes information from sources representing all 10 research source areas Demonstrates critical thinking in choices and uses of sources Demonstrates ability to summarize, analyze and synthesize sources Clearly written; reader friendly Follows conventions of Standard American Edited English Organize your bibliography according to type of source reauired but the format should followthe Chicago Style format for a bibliography Note: If you use direct quotes from a source in your narrative then cite it parenthetically. Your Bibliography page(s) should use the Chicago style citation format. Again this is not a â Works Citedâ page because the paper is not a traditional research paper. Please list your sources by category ( i.e. government document) but the citation itself should be in Chicago style format. The ISearch Paper tells the story of your research. Your group presentation will require research, both in and out of a library. The ISearch Paper tells the story of: Where you found information (UTDâ s Library, home library, the Internet, a personal interview) How you located it (An online search of News Watch, The Humanities Index, Issues and Answers pamphlets, etc.) What you found (A summary of the relevant information in the source) The relevance of the information (How you can apply the information to your study of American history) An ISearch Paper is an extensive, detailed account of your research. Unlike more traditional research papers, however, it is not formal. Instead, the paper is written in firstperson (â Iâ ) in clear, conversational Englishin your own voice. Avoid the use of stiff, academic language in this paper. Your purpose is not to impress anyone or sound like a scholar. This should be refreshing to you and allow you to write as though you were just explaining your research to someone in the class. An ISearch Paper is not an informative or persuasive research paper followed by a bibliography. Its primary purpose is to clearly document your research efforts and the thinking you did about your sources. I want to give you credit for your hard work. I also want to see how well you can locate, summarize, analyze and synthesize information. I want to see your ability to think critically about sources, to evaluate how credible or relevant a source is to your needs. All these skills are useful beyond this course. They are vital to your continuing educational progressand they form the foundation of effective workplace and responsible citizenship skills. As in a more traditional research paper, you will need to include specific information about sources. I still want you to provide your reader (the instructors, or anyone else who might be interested in your research) the same information about your sources that would be found in a research paper. In fact I still want a bibliography of sources at the end of the ISearch Paper. The main difference is that I want to see the process by which you found your sources and what you did with them when you found them; not just the product. I am even interested in the false trails and dead ends you meet along the way. So if you canâ t find a source youâ re seekingor if the source you find
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