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1. Research Step #5 – Submit in a blog titled “Research Paper Proposal”

After reading Module #7 notes, write a Research Proposal for your research topic. Use the form displayed in the sample in the notes. This paper should fulfill the following criteria:

· Include your main research question at the top and in the body of the paper.

· First paragraph Rationale

· Second paragraph Introducing and explaining the main research question and three sub questions. Briefly explain the paper’s organization.

· Third paragraph Research strategy.

· Brief working bibliography with three possible sources to be used in the final paper. In APA format.

· SUBMIT WORK in your student blog with title “Research Paper Proposal”

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2. SECOND BLOG--Post to be titled “Module #7 ASSIGNMENT” -- Synthesize two more Body Paragraphs (BP) around focused specific themes from the sources you have found. As you did with the Objective Synthesis paper, as a research writer you are answering / investigating a research question based on findings from credible, expert sources. To do so you must determine several similar specific common themes discussed in two or more secondary sources. For Module #6 you were to begin writing a BP based on one of those common themes.

For this assignment you are to write two more SCCUDy BPs on two other themes that could be used in your paper. You may also want to re-draft the BP you wrote for Module #6 in this assignment.

Do the following to accomplish this task:

· Go back over the annotations for the sources you have found so far and identify two or more focused –specific—ideas – that are discussed in at least two of the sources you are reading for your research paper.

· Using paraphrases only -- no quotations for this assignment -- develop a BP about what each source says about that single idea.

· Be sure to begin each BP with a topic sentence that identifies the common theme, and make sure the paraphrases are presented coherently – in other words, use transitions.

· Cite both sources.

· Include a bibliography after the BPs.

· Do you know where these BPs will go in your paper’s organization?

Submit in a second blog titled – “Module #7 Work”

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WHAT DO I DO???

I AM STUDYING TO BECOME A TEACHER -

I AM READING ARTICLES ABOUT WHY STUDENTS CHEAT -

I FOUND TWO SOURCES WHICH SEEM TO COVER MY TOPIC -

MY SOURCES – SO FAR

Article title: Guilty in whose eyes? University students' perceptions of cheating and plagiarism in academic...

Authors: Ashworth, Peter and Bannister, Philip

Source: Studies in Higher Education; Jun97, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p187, 17p, 1 Chart

Subject Terms:

*COLLEGE students -- Attitudes *HONESTY *PLAGIARISM

Abstract:

Reports on the use of a qualitative approach to assess university students' perception of cheating and plagiarism in academic work and assessment. Efforts to show how cheating and plagiarism appear from the perspective of the student; Cheating and plagiarism as a moral issue; Nature of plagiarism; Personal reactions to cheating and plagiarism.

Full Text Word Count: 8888

Accession Number: 9707174827

Database: Academic Search Complete

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Title: Factors associated with student plagiarism in a post-1992 university.

Arthur: Roger Bennett

Journal: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 137–162

DOI: 10.1080/0260293042000264244

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AFTER READING AND ANNOTATING THESE SOURCES -- A COUPLE OF TIMES -- I AM STARTING TO FIND COMMON THEMES –

HERE’S ONE THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING

Students might cheat and plagiarize because

they feel isolated from family and peers.

I CAN PROBABLY FIND OTHER SOURCES THAT GO ALONG WITH THIS THEME

OK – I HAVE COLLECTED MY ANNOTATIONS ON THIS THEME

I CAN USE THESE ANNOTATIONS TO WRITE A SCCUDY BP