Lec 5 Research Methods

Learning objectives: To know:

1.types of note taking

2.Plagiarism

3.punctuation

•Summary:

•Summarize if you want to record only the general idea of large amount of material

•Paraphrase if you require detailed notes on specific sentences and passages, but do not need the exact wording, you may wish to paraphrase-that is, to restate the material in your

own words .

Quotation

When you believe that some sentence or passage in its original wording might make an effective

addition to your paper ,

write that material as it appears., word for word ,comma for comma and place quotation marks around words taken from the source.

Plagiarism

•To plagiarize means to ‘’commit literary theft’’ and to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs:

1.Intellectual theft

Using another person’s ideas, information or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work.

Fraud

Passing off another person ideas, information or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage.

The Mechanics of Writing

•Spelling:

ACTIVITIES

1.summarize spelling into three words

•Consistency

•Word-division

•plurals

ACTIVITIES

3.punctuation

What is the purpose of punctuation?

•When do we use apostrophe?

•When do we use slash

When do we use comma ?

When do we use colon ?

•When do we use a period, a quotation mark ,and exclamation mark

Names of persons

Titles of Persons

Do not write titles of persons

Titles of Persons

Do not write titles of persons like Dr,Mr…

Title of work in a research paper

What do we capitalize in the title(page86)?

What do we do not capitalize in the title(page86)?