11 May Write the outline of your research paper below. The outline should begin with the title of your paper and your thesis statement. You should comple
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English | Graded Assignment | Research Paper Planning Assignment
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Graded Assignment
Research Paper Planning Assignment
Write the outline of your research paper below. The outline should begin with the title of your paper and your thesis statement. You should complete this assignment and submit it to your teacher when you finish the Develop an Outline lesson in this unit.
Total score: ____ of 30 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 5 points)
Write a title for your paper that clearly states the topic.
Answer:
Type your answer here.
(Score for Question 2: ___ of 10 points)
Write your thesis statement. Your thesis should state a fact about history and state your idea about the fact.
Answer:
Type your answer here.
(Score for Question 3: ___ of 15 points)
Develop a formal outline for your paper. Use the Making Formal Outlines sheet as a guide for structuring your content. Your outline should demonstrate that you have completed adequate research and have a grasp of the content. Your ideas should be clearly organized in a logical manner.
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Type your answer here.
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English | Resource | Making Formal Outlines
Resource
Making Formal Outlines
Outline for Model Research Paper
Title: “Free Blacks in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Introduction
Hook: Sketch of major injustices against free Blacks
Thesis statement: Despite suffering from oppressive discrimination, free Blacks in the North managed not only to survive but to build a community that helped them thrive.
Supporting Paragraphs
Economic barriers against free Blacks
Job discrimination
Examples and statistics
Quotation from “A Colored Philadelphian”
Quotation from young free Black man
Poverty and its results
Discrimination
Individual prejudice
Mob violence
Jim Crow laws: segregation
Black Codes
Black exclusion laws
Justifications for discrimination
Belief in inferiority of Black people
Fear of intermarriage
Successful struggle: Building a community
Examples of individual economic success
Examples of community activities and institutions
Conclusion
Sharing the American dream
Handing down a legacy of achievement
General Outline
Title of Paper
1. Major Section of the Paper
Major idea
Secondary idea or important detail
Secondary idea or important detail
Major idea
Secondary idea or important detail
Secondary idea or important detail
Specific detail
Specific detail
Specific detail
Specific detail
Major idea
Secondary idea or important detail
Secondary idea or important detail
Secondary idea or important detail
Major Section of the Paper
Major idea
Major idea
Secondary idea or important detail
Secondary idea or important detail
Major Section of the Paper
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English | Student Guide | Choose a Research Topic
Student Guide
Choose a Research Topic
Use this guide as you work through your lesson. The activity titles in this guide match the activity titles in the lesson. Let’s get started!
Lesson Introduction: Choose a Research Topic
In this lesson, you will choose a topic for your research paper. To accomplish this task, you will brainstorm ideas, pick one of them, and decide whether or not the topic is appropriate for the assignment. If the topic is too broad, you will narrow it.
Lesson Goals
Read the goals for this lesson.
Brainstorm and select a topic for your research paper.
Learn: Prewriting: Brainstorming
Follow the online instructions to complete the activity.
Learn: Brainstorming Topics
Use the on-screen guidance to help answer these questions. Then use your answers to develop a list of possible topics.
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Questions for Brainstorming |
Possible Topics |
Learn: Choosing a Research Topic
Reread your list of possible topics. Underline the ones that look most interesting.
Do a quick online search of your favorites.
Is there enough information about the topic for a research paper?
If not, try another topic.
My choice of topic is
Answer:
Learn: Narrowing a Topic
Answer the chain of questions. There is no set number of questions you need to answer. You may find that you only need to ask the topic-narrowing question once—or not at all. Or you may need to ask it more than three times. (Add new lines if that is the case.) The number of levels doesn’t matter. What matters is that you end up with a good topic.
When you think you have arrived at a level that is specific enough to make a workable topic, draw a star beside the topic. This is the topic that your teacher will approve or not.
My broad topic area:
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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