Part V: Paper Requirements: Expanded Explanation (taken from Fall 2020 assignment)
1. Paper Length: 5-7 Typed and Double-Spaced Pages with a font size of l0 or above
2. Works Cited Page will comprise a separate page from the 5-7 pages comprising the text of your essay.
3. Annotated Bibliography will comprise a separate page from the 5-7 pages comprising the text of your essay.
4. Required Research/Reference Sources:
a. Seven (7) reference sources must be used to document the paper and to support your argument as to whether or not the person you’re discussing is or is not a plagiarist.
b. Your seven reference sources can be collected from any one of the following: books, articles from scholarly journals, journalistic stories from newspapers, news magazines, personal interviews, films, etc.
c. In-text Citations: Seven (7) in-text citations must be included in the text of the essay and six corresponding full-text reference citations, drawn from the six in-text citations, must appear in your Works Cited Page and Annotated Bibliography.
d. Works Cited Page: Full-text reference citations for all seven sources used in the essay must be cited in a separate Works Cited Page which must appear at the end of the paper.
e. Annotated Bibliography: Full-text reference citations and accompanying annotations or summaries must be cited in a separate Annotated Bibliography Page for your seven sources.
Identify an information problem by activating an interest, scanning the environment, and focusing on a question
As you identify relevant keywords related to your topic, it may be helpful to find some background information to gain a good overview and better understanding of the context of your topic.
Conducting some brief background research can help you in finding additional terminology related to your topic, as well as specific events, dates, and names related to your topic.
Some online reference resources to try:
"...access to 600+ encyclopedias, handbooks, guides and dictionaries. These reference works cover a wide swath of topics including, science and medicine, etc.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
"A collection of encyclopedias and other reference sources which covers a variety of topics..."
Search Tips
1. Phrase Search-keep a phrase together so it will not get separated and lose intended meaning
2. Truncation - shorten a word and use wild card (*, ?) to search words of various endings
Example
plagiar* - plagiarism, plagiarize, plagiarizing, plagiarizes
wom?n - woman or women
3. Boolean Operators - use AND/ OR/ NOT to connect your keywords - Boolean Machine.
Capitalize your connectors AND/OR
Example-AND
Haley AND plagiarism (fewer hits because both ideas have to be in articles)
Example-OR
plagiarism OR stealing OR piracy OR theft OR cribbing (more hits because any of these or a combination of these words can be in articles)
4. Use parenthesis and quotation marks for logical execution of search terms
Haley AND (plagiarism OR stealing OR piracy OR theft OR cribbing)