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RESEARCH PAPERS: SUPPORTING YOU IDEAS WITH OTHERS’ WORDS
When I say that research should be 25% you 75% sources I am speaking literally – but with a very important caution. Your paper must not appear a patchwork of sources. Here is a little trick to get you on the path to successful research writing.
Say your research hypothesis is that there is untapped potential in semiprofessional chicken wrangling. Your scratch outline might look something like this:
1) Costs incurred in semiprofessional chicken wrangling are small compared to earnings
i) Equipment costs
ii) Time and costs for travel
iii) Costs competition fees, but winner’s purses
2) Training to be a semiprofessional chicken wrangler presents no insoluble obstacles
i) Cost of training
ii) Opportunities for training
iii) Dangers of training
3) Opportunities open to semiprofessional chicken wranglers offer untold rewards
i) Fame associated with dangerous sports
ii) Entry sport into other more glamorous forms of fowl wrangling
iii) World travel
So now you need to pick a detail on which to write a paragraph. Say you picked “Opportunities for training.”
Three of your sources discuss opportunities for training as a semiprofessional chicken wrangler.
In Dr Norbert Glictenschnicker’s article, “Obstacles to Chicken Wrangling,” you found this detail: “It is a popular misconception, propagated by chicken wrangling’s major equipment suppliers, that opportunities for training are abundant. In fact, every season there are fewer and fewer licensed trainers offering to take on new students.”
In Tex MacChicken’s book, Foul Wrangling: the Truth Behind the Myth, you found this detail: “Part of the allure of semiprofessional chicken wrangling is that the proliferation of affordable training opportunities means the sordid world that surrounds the sport comes cheap.”
On Mitch Fox’s website, “Other Uses for Chicken,” you found a translation of Henri Poulet’s famous statement, from his seminal work, Mon Amour pour des Poulets : “The semiprofessional chicken wrangler, if truly dedicated to his sport, will always find a willing trainer. But a willing chicken? That is a different thing entirely.”
So now you need to put these three details together in a paragraph. First ask yourself “which is best left whole? Which is best trimmed? Which is best paraphrased? What would be the most effective order to put them in?”
Use the catchiest one whole: “The semiprofessional chicken wrangler, if truly dedicated to his sport, will always find a willing trainer.”
Trim and reintroduce the least informative, most repetitive, or the one least on the point: In his discussion of the sordid world of chicken wrangling, Tex MacChicken argues that the popularity of semiprofessional chicken wrangling owes much to “the proliferation of affordable training opportunities.”
Paraphrase the longest: Dr Norbert Glictenschnicker argues that training opportunities are ever dwindling, despite what the equipment suppliers would have us believe.
Then pick an order and paste them in:
Now add your 25%:
Research suggests that, while trainers are growing scarce, committed enthusiasts should find no obstacle. Dr Norbert Glictenschnicker argues that training opportunities are ever dwindling, despite what the equipment suppliers would have us believe (137). Yet Glictenschnicker’s is a disconnected, academic view; those involved in the sport suggest brighter prospects. In his discussion of the sordid world of chicken wrangling, Foul Wrangling, the Truth Behind the Myth, Tex MacChicken argues that the popularity of semiprofessional chicken wrangling owes much to “the proliferation of affordable training opportunities” (895-96). Whichever assessment is accurate, the famous words of Henri Poulet are worth recording: “The semiprofessional chicken wrangler, if truly dedicated to his sport, will always find a willing trainer” (Mon Amour pour des Poulets, qtd in Fox, 324). While one can likely train to become a semiprofessional chicken wrangler, one must consider the dangers of doing. 130 words (without citations)
EMPLOYING SOURCES EXERCISE
Instructions: Create a proper, fully-informative paragraph using the information below.
Research Thesis/Topic: “The internet has had positive impacts on interpersonal relationships.”
Section Thesis/Topic: The internet and dating
Paragraph Thesis/Topic: Cost efficiency and internet dating.
Quotes:
Ralph Kramden, in his book Internet Dating and the Savvy Economist, page 253: “Recently compiled studies show that, for the male internet dater, the actual dating cost per-short term relationship (4-6 dates) has dropped by 35.7%.”
Matthew Greenshirt, writes in a discussion on the website Internet Daters.org, “given the increased cost in date related activities (coffee and movie prices), it is difficult to make any definitive statements regarding changes in the cost of middle-term relationships (2-4 months); nevertheless, there is an undeniable savings in very short tern relationships (1-3 dates) – as there is during the initial, formative stage of longer term relationships.”
Stacey North, in her article “The Cost of Long-term Dating,” page 122: “in a survey of those for whom internet founded relationships had achieved long-term status (6-12 months), while the slight majority (51%) found little change in the overall cost of dating from per-internet figures; for the remainder of those surveyed (49%) the overall cost of dating decreased by 35%.”
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