A Guide to Report Writing September 2008 CONTENTS Page 1. 2 INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................................1 PREPARATION ................................................................................................................................2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................
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Library Tutorial Questions: 1. How do you narrow down your search to only full text articles or only journal articles? (Be specific in your explanation.) Type in the article you want to search then select search once you have done this on the left side of the page you can refine your search to full text or you can go under the content type and select journal article. 2. How do you go right to EBSCOHost? (Be specific in your steps describing how to get to that screen.) On the main
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I am writing this as a general note to everyone. If it does not apply to you just read for your pleasure. Many of you may have never had the opportunity to write a research paper. The paper is not a speech, it is not a conversation that you have with someone, and it is not a personal letter that you are writing. Every class I seem to get one or two who write this way and write like: “First of all, we will address-------“…..You are not addressing anything. You approach a paper as a researcher—simply
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two kinds of writing: creative and expository. Creative writing tells about feelings, opinions, points of view, things that originate inside the writer. Expository essays tell about facts, things outside of the writer. Essays on literature examine a literary text, a thing outside the writer. Lab reports describe experiments with chemicals and other stuff that really exists and can be measured. Research is factual; fiction, poetry, and the personal story are emotional. Wrong. Writing is not that
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head: QUALITATIVE 1 Qualitative Research and Methods Maria A. Kithcart LEAD 870 January 29, 2012 Dr. Heewon Chang Abstract The purpose of this paper is to describe in a reflective-analysis essay format about QL research methods and process that contains a discussion of the following four components. First, the author highlights how QL research orientation is different from QN research orientation. Next, the author explains methodological insights that
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A Reflection on the Effects of Memoirs The primary purpose of my research paper is to present a cross-section of the current conversations taking place around the way memoirs affect the writers who publish them. Based on my research, it appears that the effects tend to involve emotional and psychological consequences, as well as legal troubles in some instances. The discovery of this conversation helped me to refine my research topic into the question, “Do the benefits of publishing a memoir outweigh
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me is turning in another person’s work and the misunderstood boundary between plagiarism and research. I enjoyed learning how to recognize the various forms of plagiarism, Poor Disguise, Ghost Writer, and Self-Stealer. First, I view plagiarism as nothing but stealing the work of someone else which is wrong and displays academic dishonesty. Per Grand Canyon University’s Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching, plagiarism can be defined in many ways. Such as, the act of appropriating the
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Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers? ZANE K. QUIBLE FRANCES GRIFFIN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA ABSTRACT. Business professionals and instructors often view writing skills as one of the most important qualifications that employees should possess. However, many business employees, including recent college graduates, have serious writing deficiencies, especially in their ability to use standard English. As a result, American businesses spend billions
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How can teachers encourage middle- and high-school students to write for a grade as well as write creatively? What do young people learn from learning how to write creatively? What is the impact of brain based learning on writing skills? Since the 1990s, there has been a mass production of academic research reflecting on the learning processes of the brain, and the need to implement brain-based methods in education. Paul MacLean believed that the brain was developed in three layers. He also stated
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why and how you did it and what you found. It is the formal writing up of a practical experiment, project or research investigation. A report is written in a way which presumes that the reader knows nothing about your experiment or research. It is usually written more concisely than an essay, with headings and sub-headings and perhaps bullet-point recommendations, etc. A research report must be written in sufficient detail so that someone reading it would be able to replicate your research exactly
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