Hardage's English Class

"English is not for Sissies"

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Research Paper/Short Story

       1,000-1,200 Words

    Your paper begins with the words, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

It does not have to stay a dark and stormy night, but it does have to begin

that way.

    The elements that must be in your paper include:

1.  the question you are asking, researching.

2.   five parenthetical documentations of evidence for your conclusion

3.   the conclusion reached from your research

4.    1,000 to 1,200 words ( use Tools  Word Count on the toolbar)

double-spaced (Format)(ParagraphLine Spacing 1.5 Lines)

5.     a minimum of three characters

6.     setting – time and place

7.     conflict that is resolved using what you have

learned in your research

8.     rising and falling action

9.     climax of action

10.   a reasonably believable plot

11.    your name and period number in upper right-hand

corner of header

12.     Works Cited Page

Challenges (Extra Credit):

1.can you work an appropriate haiku into your text?

Links:      http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html

http://www.libraryspot.com/features/paperfeature.htm

http://www.noodletools.com.

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This page was last updated: February 7, 2006

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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be . . .

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See Note Below

This is the note below . . .

Because I was not able to get computer lab time in one of the labs till April 5 and 6, we will not turn in the completed paper with the research completed until April 12 and 13.  Since the fifth six ends on the seventh of the fourth,* a test grade for the paper will go into the gradebook for the 500-word paper for this six weeks, and another test grade will go into the gradebook for the final six weeks for the completed paper.

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* The Fifth Six Weeks ends 7 April (4/7).