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    1. Adventures in PART 1: Research CCS110 | C. Booton Print 3/perpage handout, doublesided, 3-hole left, stapled, slides 1-51.Print 3/perpage handout, doublesided, 3-hole left, stapled, slides 1-51.

    2. 2 Our Mission… To demystify the research and writing process

    3. 3 Introduction Most students dread writing a research paper. How do I choose a topic? How do I find credible research? What do I do with the research after I find it? How do I format an MLA paper and not get in trouble for plagiarism? (More about plagiarism in Part 2) How do I get my research into the paper? How do I structure my paper so it has a clear thesis statement, and a beginning, middle, and end?

    4. 4 Adventures in Writing: Part 1 In Part 1, you will learn how to: Choose a topic Write a clear thesis statement Find credible Internet sources Identify the citation information Gather only the information you need Organize your research

    5. 5 Overview of the Research Process

    7. 7 Choose a Topic Before you begin your research, choose a topic that interests you. Start with a general subject area and drill down to a specific topic: Healthcare?children’s healthcare?comparing children’s healthcare in urban and rural areas Compose a tentative thesis statement. Children who live in rural areas receive lower quality healthcare than do children who live in urban areas. Or the opposite: Children living in rural areas actually receive the same or better healthcare than children living in urban areas.

    8. 8 Thesis Statement What is a thesis statement? In a typical research paper, this is what you are trying to prove. It’s the point of your paper. It may be a claim about the state of the world. It may be a belief that you hold that you want to persuade others to believe. It can be a value statement that you defend, and may use words like should, must, or ought to. A thesis statement demands compelling reasons to support it. That is your job: to stake your claim and give the reader compelling reasons to agree with you.

    9. 9 Choose a Topic Subject: Criminal justice Drill down: Law enforcement?women in law enforcement?discrimination against women in law enforcement?in Oregon Tentative thesis statement: Female police officers serving in Oregon are the target of ongoing discrimination and sexual harassment. Or conversely: There is no discrimination against female police officers in Oregon.

    10. 10 Choose a Topic Subject: Medical assisting Drill down: Medical assisting?compensation for medical assistants?compensation for medical assistants working in hospitals and nursinghomes Tentative thesis statement: The pay rate for medical assistants who work in nursinghomes in Oregon is much less than the rate paid to assistants who work in hospitals. Or the opposite: The over-inflated pay rate for medical assistants working in nursinghomes is the main reason elder health care is so expensive.

    11. 11 Choose a Topic Subject: Business Drill down: Business?marketing?advertising? cigarette advertising to children Tentative thesis statement: Despite current legislation, an unacceptable number of cigarette ads are still being aimed at children. Or the opposite: Controlling cigarette advertising places an unfair burden on the cigarette industry.

    12. 12 Choose a Topic Subject: Paralegal Drill down: Law offices?treatment of paralegals in law offices?treatment of minority and female paralegals in law offices Tentative thesis statement: Women and minority paralegals receive lower pay, work longer hours, and are promoted less often than white male paralegals. Or the opposite: Women and minority paralegals receive special treatment compared to white male paralegals.

    13. 13 Choose a Topic Subject: Healthcare administration Drill down: Use of technology in healthcare?use of the Internet to improve healthcare?use of the Internet to improve healthcare administration in small clinics Tentative thesis statement: The Internet has not changed the way medicine is practiced in small clinics. Or conversely: The growing use of the Internet in healthcare is changing the way medicine is practiced in small clinics.

    14. 14 Choose a Topic: Mind Mapping

    15. 15 Choose a Topic: Review Start with a broad subject area Drill down to a specific topic Compose a tentative thesis statement Make a claim/take a position State your belief/opinion Explore your claim from a variety of viewpoints before you settle on your position

    17. 17 Begin your Research Should you use books or magazines, or does all research now use the Internet? Books and magazines are OK, but you will need to type or write notes and quotes from the sources. You will save time if you can access your sources online.

    18. 18 Begin your Research How do I know what sources are OK to use? Sources must be credible. Wikipedia is a useful beginning point, but it is not a credible source, because anyone—experts and non-experts alike—can post to wikipedia. You can, however, click through to some credible sources from the wikipedia page. Look for expert sources such as articles from peer-reviewed journals. Peer-reviewed sources are where one expert submits an article to a journal and a bunch of other experts review it for accuracy before it can be published.

    19. 19 Begin your Research ebrary is a collection of electronic books EBSCOhost is a collection of online periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers)

    20. 20 Begin your Research: ebrary ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/lib/pioneer Your username is your first initial and last name, all together in lowercase, no punctuation and no spaces. cbooton Your password is the last four digits of your social security number, omitting any leading zeros. 0025 will be entered as 25

    21. 21 Book Research: ebrary

    22. 22 ebrary: Search

    23. 23 ebrary: Search

    24. 24 ebrary: Search

    25. 25 ebrary: Search Results

    26. 26 ebrary: Search Results

    27. 27 ebrary: Search Inside a Book

    28. 28 ebrary: Search Results When you have finished looking at that book, click on the SEARCH tab to return to the search page. Put quotes around phrases to narrow your search; for example, “medical coding” in the first search box and “united states” in the second box narrowed the search to just 8 documents.

    29. 29 ebrary Features ebrary has some useful features: The Bookshelf. Click Add to myBookshelf to move the book into your personal space, where you can create folders and organize and save your research. Highlighting. Select passages and highlight them in different colors. Copy text. Select passages of text and copy and paste them into a Word document. The citation information is pasted along with the text.

    30. 30 ebrary: Copy Text into Word

    31. 31 ebrary: Copy Text into Word

    32. 32 Periodical Research: EBSCOhost What if the books are outdated, or not focused enough to give you what you need? Periodicals are magazines, journals, newspapers, and other information sources that come out periodically. We use an online source called EBSCOhost to access thousands of periodicals in numerous subject areas.

    33. 33 EBSCOhost EBSCOhost can be accessed from the Pioneer Pacific College web site or the desktop of any PPC student lab computer. You can access EBSCOhost from home: http://search.ebscohost.com Username: s6136833 Password: password

    34. 34 EBSCOhost Databases

    35. 35 EBSCOhost

    36. 36 EBSCOhost

    37. 37 EBSCOhost

    38. 38 EBSCOhost

    39. 39 EBSCOhost

    40. 40 EBSCOhost

    41. 41 EBSCOhost

    42. 42 EBSCOhost

    43. 43 Save your Research Save a Word or pdf file for each article you plan to use for your paper. Save the filenames like this: author’s lastname, date of article, short descriptive title. Gose-2008-teaching methods.doc Put the citation information at the top of the Word document. Do not print out your articles.

    44. 44 EBSCOhost

    45. 45 EBSCOhost

    47. 47 Organize your Research

    48. 48 Preparing your Research Read each article (Word and pdf) carefully, noting the parts that relate in some way to your thesis. Mark the text that seems useful by high-lighting it or making it a different color. For the pdf files, copy only the useful text into a Word document, pasting as unformatted text. Save as a Word document.

    49. 49 Review of the Research Process

    50. 50 Review Choose a subject area. Narrow it to find your topic. Formulate your tentative thesis statement. Use ebrary and EBSCOhost to collect books and articles related to your topic. Organize your research as a series of Word and pdf files, saved in a project folder on your computer or flashdrive. Read each article and mark relevant text.

    51. 51 Prepare to Write In Part 2 you will learn: How to use the research text you have marked in your paper How to paraphrase your research into your own words, avoiding unintentional plagiarism How to format your MLA paper with proper citations and a Works Cited page How to structure your outline with a strong beginning (an opening sentence, preview points, and thesis statement), a persuasive middle; and a convincing closing summary

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