Writing notes

Avoiding Plagiarism 

Direct Quotation-

involves all or a part of an original quotation from source material into own writing with quotation marks and proper citation 

"Dobby is free" (Rowling 338)

have a good reason to use a direct quote 

Paraphrasing-

putting quotes from source material into own words 

paraphrase must be credited to original source 

usually shorter than the original source 

Summarizing-

involves main idea(s) into own words 

necessary to credit summarized ideas to the original source 

Plagiarism- 

when you represent words, ideas and information from another source and making it sound as your own 

Key points- 

Most of the time for research papers you will be summarizing and paraphrasing 

ALL Paraphrasing, Summaries and Direct Quotations need to be cited otherwise it is PLAGIARISM 

Introductions-

English & Science

Basic paragraph structure

3 components

    Hook- Grab readers attention topic sentence, unusual fact,hard to do well to do questions(thought provoking), no questions(should be questions but not in intro), write question

    Transition - Explanation and analysis How does it connect your thesis/hypothesis? analyzing, explain, why is it relevant?, quote(deep thinking),   / why is it

    thesis/ hypothesis- Main assertion

Strategies ; 1 unusual fact and + transition + thesis

2 through provoking quote with citation + transition + thesis