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• Read and revise your paragraphs for effective topic sentences and well- organized information.
• Choose what you consider important quotations from your sources and work these smoothly into the flow of your report. For example: As Malcolm Gladwell notes in his essay on copyright laws, “Something Borrowed,” “plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something much closer to a crime” (Gladwell 225).
• Present your research findings, including a Works Cited page.
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task—it will help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
ACTIVITY 3
Creating a Group Research Presentation
1. With your writing group, go through the brainstorming process to choose a topic. Write your notes on a separate piece of paper.
2. Next, with your group, generate open-ended questions about your topic. Refine, add, and delete questions as needed. Then choose one question as your major research question. Copy your major research question here.
3. Use the graphic organizer to develop a plan that explains how you will research this topic and gather information to answer the major research question.
Writing Workshop 6 • Research Writing 9
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