Preparing for the research paper

Write a one-page essay answering the following questions.

1. What is the topic of your research paper? What is the topic sentence?
2. What is your paper’s preliminary title?
3. Where and how have you looked for sources?
4. What have you found? How many sources? How have you kept track of that information?
5. What are three main points you plan to develop in your paper?
6. How to do you plan to avoid plagiarism?

Your essay is due at the beginning of class Thursday, February 25, 2010, and will count as an in-class writing grade.