The Slickest Writing and Research Method Ever

Objective: To give teachers information about current research resources. To give teachers an easy and logical method to teach secondary students about writing research papers.

Procedure: This seminar is in lecture format with activities. Handouts and lesson plans will be provided. Teachers should bring with them photocopies of scholarly journal articles that can be cut up.

Researching

• Public Libraries
• University Libraries
• General online resources (Google Scholar, Google News, Credo, Organizations and associations web sites, Wikipedia)
• Government web sites (National Archives, Library of Congress, Agency web sites, CQ Researcher)
• Credibility of sources

Writing to the Quote and the Five Cannons of Rhetoric

• Invention (topic finding exercise, topic narrowing exercise, STAR [sufficiency, timeliness, appropriateness, relevance], gathering sources)
• Arrangement (choosing quotes relevant to the topic, cutting and pasting quotes, arranging quotes in the order they will appear in the paper, ideas to connect the quotes, transitions, writing the introduction and conclusion)
• Style (choice and variation according to audience, purpose, and context; types and levels of style, consistent style throughout)
• Memory (keeping in mind audience, purpose, and context, remembering the main claim, revising and rough drafts, peer review)
• Delivery (the final draft, documentation styles)

How Computers and the Internet Have Changed Writing and Research