Gathering Information and Writing In Your Own Words:
General Topic

The purpose of this project is to learn how to do research using the Internet. You will need to do research for various class projects, reports and papers.

For this assignment you will be finding information about a topic and writing about it in your own words. This is one of the most important skills you will learn. Just copying information from the Internet and pasting it into a paper is not an acceptable way to do reports and research. You need to be able to read some information that you have gathered and write it in your own words. One of the purposes of this first assignment is to learn how to write information you have gathered in your own words.

1. Open up Microsoft Word and create a new document. Save the document in your directory and give it a name with no spaces or capitol letters. Call it something like internet_research.doc.
   
   
   
2. At the top of the word doc put in a title in larger letter and centered. The title should be something link Internet Research Techniques.
   
   
3. Insert a table that has two columns and two rows. At the top of the left column put in a column heading that says Info From Internet and at the top of the right hand column put in the heading My Words. Click here to see sample of formating.
   
   
4. Go to the Home page of our class web site. Click on the link that says Library and Search Links.
   
   
5. Click on the link that says Electric Library. Your username and password for Electric Library are listed on that page.
   
   
6. When you get to the Electric Library page pick a general topic to search for and do a search. When you find some information that you are interested in, highlight it and copy it to the clipboard.
   
   
7. Switch to your MS Word doc and paste the information into the column that says Info From Internet.
   
   
8. Read the information carefully.
   
   
9. In the right hand column write down what you learned from reading the information in the left hand column. Be sure to write it in your words and to include important facts. Please do not copy sentences from the column on the left.
   

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