Research writing

What should be avoided when writing results?

• Be factual and concise in reporting your findings

• Use Non-textual Elements in your results

• Consider both positive and negative results

• Present the same data or repeat the same information more than once

The conclusion is intended to help the reader understand why your research should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper.

• True

• False

To avoid plagiarism you can do 3 things:

• Write everything verbatim, say you are sorry, write why you plagiarized.

• Use quotation marks if you write something verbatim, paraphrase, write an in-text citation.

• Write the source, but not the year, write the exact words, tell your teacher you'll never do it again.

Plagiarism is wrong because it deprives someone else of due credit for their work.

• True

• False

You do not need to cite sources when you use someone else's charts, drawings or photographs

• True

• False

How can you give credit to the author when writing a paper? (Choose two)

• Write the information directly into your paper.

• To attribute to the author or institution.

• By beginning the sentence with "According to..."

• Do not state where you got the information.

What is an abstract?

• a short summary of a longer work

• a page where you should collect the academic sources and all the publications you consulted

• a page where you present the sources you have studied while preparing for the work ahead

• a page where you report the findings of your study based upon the methodology you applied to gather information

How many key steps are there in writing a literature review?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Which sources of information should you include in the reference page?

• General mentions of websites or periodicals

• Common knowledge

• Personal communications

• Sources cited in the body text

When referring to your results, you should use:

• Present tense

• Past tense

• Future tense

• Present perfect tense