During these two days, we continued to work in the lab.
- I asked you to develop “chunks” –or topics that you think your notes cover, and number them. I suggested you need at least 3 and should probably have no more than 5. You can see an example of a research question and chunks here.
- Then I asked you to use the numbers to label your notes. Each note can belong to only one chunk–so choose carefully! When When you’re done labeling your notes with chunks, they’ll look like this.
- Then I asked you to select all of your notes, starting with the chunk column. In other words, select this information first, and then move the cursor over to select the rest of the notes like this.
- With all of that information selected, press the
button. - Once they’re sorted, your notes will look like this. All the notes that have to do with chunk #1 will be in one place, same for all the notes that have to do with chunk #2, 3, etc.
Why is this useful? Well, your chunks will become your body paragraphs. Now you have all the information you need for each body paragraph sorted into one place. This helps to protect your academic integrity by making sure you’re not looking at just one source for any particular paragraph, and it prevents you from looking at your sources at all while you’re writing your speech.
I will come around and confirm that your chunks are solid topics today.
And YOU get to begin writing–taking those facts and notes and turning them into an explanation of the topic for that paragraph. There is a sample body paragraph on page 36 of your packet.
Two warnings:
- Do NOT simply list facts and notes – actually write out an explanation of each topic, using the information from your notes.
- Do NOT put a fact or note alone in a sentence!
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