Posted: June 20th, 2015

create a problem-solution research report.

create a problem-solution research report.

Research Report Develop a topic for a research report that will be due at the end of the course. Your writing assignment for this course is to create a problem-solution research report. In this report, you will explain why you are interested in this particular problem. You will then explain the problem and discuss all you have learned about it. Then, you will write of what is being done to correct the problem, or what could be done to make the situation better. Lesson 3.4: Research Report Cont. Continue work on your research report by using magazine articles to make source and note cards for your research report. At this time you will search for material on the topic you selected from magazines. You may do this by going to a library, looking under your topic headings in the Readers’ Guides, and requesting access to the magazine from the library. I know that you can get good magazine information from the Internet. However, please know that on your Works Cited page (you will complete this later and turn it in as part of this assignment) you MUST have one source from a magazine and it can NOT be from the Internet. If you are going to use many sources in your paper, you can use other magazine sources from the Internet, but at least one magazine source can not be from the Internet. If you do use Internet sources, you must include the Web address URL on your source card. I suggest you try to find information about your topic from at least three different magazines. Be sure to write down the source information, and then take good notes from each article. Lesson 4.5: Research Report Cont. Continue work on your research report by utilizing information found in special references and non-fiction and in making source and note cards on that information. You have researched information on your subject in encyclopedias and magazines. You will continue your research now by finding information on special reference and non-fiction books. What is a “special reference” book? Each library has a reference department where encyclopedias and other reference books are shelved. An example of a special reference book would be a book entitled “Chronology of World Events”. Another example would be “Physician’s Desk Reference”. There are many books in this department in a library. Work with your school or city librarian. She/he would be delighted to help you. Non-fiction books are true books that contain actual facts that have been compiled by an author or editor. These books also have a special place in the library. Any librarian would be glad to help you find books that pertain to your subject. Lesson 5.5: Research Report Cont. Continue working on your research report by learning correct procedures to conduct an interview with a person who has knowledge about the topic you chose. For this lesson, you are to conduct an interview with a person who has more than an average understanding of the topic you are researching. If, for instance, you are researching facts about homelessness, you can visit a homeless shelter and request an interview with the director. If a face-to-face interview is impossible, you may interview someone using the telephone or the computer. Once you have interviewed the person, be sure to make a source card giving the person’s full name, their title or position, and the date the interview was conducted. Be sure to assign this source card a number. Make note cards on the information you learn from the interview. You probably won’t include page numbers at the bottom of the note cards made from the interview. Once you have accomplished that, you are ready to move on to lesson 6. Research Report Instructions In-text Documentation As you write your research report, you need to give credit to the people and/or books that provided that information for you. Doing this is called in-text documentation. It simply means that you are giving credit—in the body of your report—to the sources that provided the information you are using. This is an example of in-text documentation: Redwood National Park in Orick, California covers 110,180 acres (National Forests 550). Note: National Forests is the title of the book (or magazine article) where you found this information. The information was found on page 550 in the book. Notice several things: There is no end punctuation (period) until after the in-text documentation. There is a space between the end of the sentence and the first parenthesis. National Forests tells the reader the first most important words of the title of the work which contained this information. In this case, there was no author. If there had been an author, I would have used the author’s name in place of the first part of the title. There is no punctuation between the title (or author) or the work and the page number—in this case, 550—where the information was found. The last parenthesis is followed by a period. The sentence is not considered complete without this punctuation. If you are going to give in-text documentation for a direct quote you are using, it is documented this way: Park Ranger Williams stated, “Redwood National Park in Orick, California, covers 110,180 acres” (National Forests 550). And last could you please offer me the website link you used in the paper. and the book name, author name, and publisher. Thank you!

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