Pre-Thesis Week:
We covered several skills vital to successful research paper (thesis) writing today, including defining plagiarism. Plagiarism could result in failing this class, so be sure that you know what it is.
Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas without giving them credit (through citations or attributions).
Using other peoples words and ideas is a basic aspect of a research paper.
So, your thesis will have lots of citations and attributions throughout the paper identifying those ideas and words you are borrowing.
In class we watched this video and practiced paraphrasing based on the content of the video.
Then we read an excerpt from Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. The class practiced annotating text and writing direct quotes. Students should finish annotating the passage for class on Thursday.
We learned the quote pattern song:
In class on Thursday we will be writing a short essay explaining Wrangham's argument in Catching Fire.
We covered several skills vital to successful research paper (thesis) writing today, including defining plagiarism. Plagiarism could result in failing this class, so be sure that you know what it is.
Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas without giving them credit (through citations or attributions).
Using other peoples words and ideas is a basic aspect of a research paper.
So, your thesis will have lots of citations and attributions throughout the paper identifying those ideas and words you are borrowing.
In class we watched this video and practiced paraphrasing based on the content of the video.
Then we read an excerpt from Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. The class practiced annotating text and writing direct quotes. Students should finish annotating the passage for class on Thursday.
We learned the quote pattern song:
Intro the quote
quote the quote
cite the quote
explain the quote
In class on Thursday we will be writing a short essay explaining Wrangham's argument in Catching Fire.
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