 | State your own position in answer to your research question in your own
words. Don't let some other author speak for you. |
| Don't just list facts or quotes that you have found out through research.
Instead, make everything fit together into an argument for your own position
on some issue.
Don't do this:
 | Describe fact number one. |
| Quote from some author you agree with. |
| Summary of argument from some author you were
impressed with. |
| The end. |
Instead, do this:
| Introduce the issue you are addressing. |
| Describe various relevant facts, using them as premises for your own
argument for your own positions. |
| Use quotes sparingly -- never as the main statement of what you want
to say. Use quotes to support your point of view, or as examples of
what you are arguing against. |
| State your own position in your own words. |
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| Break your writing up into fairly short pages, and put links between the
pages so the reader can move between them, and follow what you are doing.
| Don't just make one long essay that the reader is supposed to
scroll through. |
| Instead, try to get each main idea or group of closely-related
points onto one page. Put other ideas or points onto a different
page. |
| Maybe have a top page that provides an outline of the whole site, with
links to each part. |
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| If you are using Word to create your pages, it will put the footnotes at
the bottom of the page. If you are using WordPerfect, it will create
footnote bubbles that pop up over the text. Different page creation
software packages handle notes in different ways, but there is always a way to
make citations work. |