Research+Paper+Assignment

What is a research paper?
A research paper is more than the summary of your sources or a collection of information. **You should present your own thinking and support it with information you have found from the library or the internet.**

What is __**NOT**__ a research paper?

 * A research paper is not a series of quotations laced together. That would be a scrapbook.
 * It isn't a paraphrase of a single book or article. This is a summary.
 * It is not a borrowing of the words from a website or a book without saying where the words came from.

Guiding questions to help you get started:

 * Introduce the person. Who is he or she?
 * What were your person's accomplishment(s) that made him/her famous?
 * What disability, illness, or other challenges did your person have to overcome? Describe it.
 * What challenges did your person face to accomplish his/her goals? How did the person overcome or deal with them?

= = =The following attachment is the assignment for the research paper that accompanies our reading of = =//The Miracle Worker//: =



On the day the paper is due, you should hand in the following:
 * 1) A final copy
 * 2) A rough draft (the rough draft should illustrate that you and at least one other person have thoroughly proofread your paper)
 * 3) Notes sheet (the sheet that you took notes on in the library and on the the computer)

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/ddbc866bc537f67e85256a460066ab2d?OpenDocument An American Rhetoric__ by Holt Rinehart Winston