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People who share your interest in the topic but do not already know a great deal about it (classmates and teachers) |
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Do not use words such as: I, me, my, mine, we, and our - do not state opinion without supporting them with facts - do not use slang, informal language, or contractions. |
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Tells the title of the book, author's name, and publisher's name and city. |
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Tells the year the book was published. |
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May tell what the book is about, why it was written, and how to use it. |
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Introduce the main idea of the article/paper (ours will be "explaining a general concept by means of specific examples: The purpose of this paper is to explain that Brazil is a wonderful place for culture, places of interest, and geographical setting.) |
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Tells the reader the topic of a piece of writing the main points the writer will make about the topic. |
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Includes just enough important facts to support of explain the main idea. As much as possible, use you own words and phrases to share these facts. |
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Restate the main idea of the summary in a different way. |
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Bibliography/ sources that you used sources that you used in your report. |
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Original sources that give you firsthand information. |
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Contain information that has been gathered by someone else. |
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A word related to your topic. |
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Write the ideas in your own words. |
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Stealing another writer's work as your own, either intentionally or unitentionally. |
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Repeats the words of a source exactly, quotation marks are used around the quoted material. |
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Shortened statement of an idea in a source, it says the same thing in fewer and different words. |
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Indicates something is taken from the source (a quotation, summary, paraphase, or fact) and is about to be used, usually includes the author's name Help readers located the source in the Works Cited list at the end of your report. |
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Comes after the cited material, includes the author's last name and a page number) Help readers located the source in the Works Cited list at the end of your report. |
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Plan for your report, how you will group the information you have gathered together and the order in which you will present the information. |
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Computer generated slides with graphics and sound effects (extras that make important points of your presentation clearer and more interesting) |
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"Map" of the slides you plan to use in your presentation (the design of your slides) |
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