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WRITING WORKSHOP
Research Writing
Learning Targets
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
• Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
• Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
• Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
Research Writing
To write reports or communicate information to others, you may need to conduct research on a chosen topic. Creating and following an organized plan for your research will help you collect appropriate information for your finished report or communication. When conducting and presenting research, it is important to follow a process that includes:
• A research plan with the topic, research question, and possible sources to be consulted
• Relevant, valid, and reliable primary and/or secondary sources
• Relevant research information recorded in notes
• Bibliographic information recorded in a standard format
• Demonstrated understanding of plagiarism and paraphrasing
• Evaluation of research results, clarifying questions, and assembled findings
• Findings organized and presented to address a specific purpose and audience
To complete this workshop, you will work with your teacher and classmates to conduct research and present your findings. You will then use these models to plan and conduct research on a topic of your choice to present to your classmates.
LEARNING STRATEGIES Brainstorming, Think- Pair-Share, Note-taking, Drafting, Discussion Groups, Marking the Text, Annotating the Text, Graphic Organizers
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