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Note Cards
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Creating a Thesis Statement:
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Organizing your Paper
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1. Make an outline of your paper
2. Identify your implied audience aka your teacher 3. Write an introduction that captures the interest of your reader, established a need for your paper, and communicates your main claim aka your thesis 4. Provide the context your reader will need to understand and follow your argument 5. Order your subclaims aka your body paragraphs 6. Refute counterarguments 7. Write a conclusion that briefly summaries your paper and provides closure |
Citations & Bibliographies
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Notes & Bibliography:
You are using Chicago Style.
Avoiding Plagiarism
1. Determine what information is common knowledge and therefore doesn’t need to be cited 2. Keep track (with your note cards) of which ideas are your own and which come from other sources 3. Make sure every borrowed idea (whether it’s summarized, paraphrased, or quoted) is properly credited 4. Introduce each source with talking about the credibility of your source and where the borrowed idea begins and ends 5. Use summaries to condense a source’s main idea into a few sentences 6. Paraphrase the sources you want to include in more detail 7. Quote sources when they are memorably phrased |