What is the benefit of eating more heathier to successfully maintain a healthy weight.With respect to A3, you’ll want to use your research to answer any questions that you have about your goal, particularly with respect to the required points from the assignment sheet. Search for sources that mention something about “support” or “obstacles” or “process” as it relates to your goal.
You might also incorporate sources to provide some broader context to different aspects of your goal. For example, I mentioned “procrastination” as an obstacle in my sample outline. I might use the Chronicle of Higher Education database to find a blog post (written by a credible professor or psychologist) or a Ted Talk on the problem of procrastination among college students. I can then link my own experience with procrastination to the important information I’ve found from my source.
You might already have plenty of ideas about the different aspects of your goal; another way to use your sources, of course, is to validate your preconceptions of achieving your goal.
I find that what’s more interesting than simply supporting your own views with your research, though, is when students have an initial idea about, say, the best support available for achieving their goal, and then they find through their research that ________ is even better. It’s okay to include this in your essay!
It’s an iSearch paper, so you can write things like, “Before I researched ________, I thought that ________ was the case, but after reading through ________, I found that ________ was actually true.” In any case, remember to allow yourself to learn from your research.
Whatever you do with your A3 research, remember to write around it so as to help your reader understand the connections you’ve made between the research and your own ideas.
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General reminders about integrating research:
(You’ll want to keep these notes in mind for the future, but they’re all requirements for A3 as well.)
Accurately represent sources.
Do not twist your source’s words to make it sound like they’re saying what you want them to say.
Establish sources’ credibility
This can be done in a quick aside, like this: According to (the source), who is the (their job position), (their argument, findings, etc.). You can use this as a template, but be sure to vary the ways you introduce your sources throughout the essay. In other words, don’t just include that exact sentence with your information incorporated every time you mention a source.
Use Precise Verbs
New assignment; same rules. Work hard to preciselycapture what the author is doing. No “talks about.”
Use Sources as Support (not in TS)
Topic Sentences should introduce your point; use source material as SEED sentences. Again, review the sample outline for help with topic sentences – notice how simple this can be!
Use Source Material Strategically
You might start with author, title, and main point each time you introduce a new source, and thenprovide the information from the source that is most relevant to the point you’re making. But do not BS in this essay. Don’t just incorporate source material to incorporate source material or meet the word count requirement.
Frame All Source Material
Don’t forget to introduce all source material and then explain all source material.
Cite Properly
We’ll go over this again later, but remember what you learned here.
Avoid Patch-writing/Plagiarism
Patch-writing is a form of plagiarism where you change just a few little words from your author and then call it your own. If you’re going to quote the author directly, use quotation marks. If you’re going to paraphrase the author, use entirely different words and an entirely different sentence structure. If don’t understand something the author is saying, don’t use it in the paper just to sound smart. Figure out what they mean and paraphrase or don’t use it at all.
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Some Notes on Using Direct Quotes (“Quote Notes”):
Do use quotes
Directly quoting an especially interesting or unique phrase is a good thing! It shows that you’re able to pick out of an article that which is interesting or unique. It also shows that you’ve done the research.
Don’t over-quote
But don’t over-quote. Doing so suggests that you don’t understand the source’s text and can’t explain it in your own words. This is one of the reasons for the “10% rule” from the assignment sheet about using direct quotes.
Don’t introduce quotes as quotes:
Example: According to a quote by Wes Moore, “it’s unsettling to know how little separates each of us from another life altogether” (xi). This is really confusing, right? It sounds like Moore is quoting someone else, but we know that these are his words. It’s also redundant. You don’t have to call it a quote when the reader can see the quotation marks. Use a precise verb instead to reflect what the author is doing.
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