18 Research Strategy // Due the week of Jan. 28, 2015

Hi Everyone!

This week in class, we talked about a way to reduce the time it takes to read an article—thereby helping you all in your future research!

The theory behind this strategy is this:

Every body paragraph (in general) should have the following outline:

1. Topic Sentence (Introduces the topic of the paragraph)
1. Evidence
2. Details
3. Facts
4. Reasonings
2. Conclusion Sentence (Wraps it up, reflects the topic sentence)

Given that, you can read the topic sentence (and also look at the conclusion sentence) of most good paragraphs and find out the general topic—without having to read it! Then you can see if you should read the paragraph or not—based on what information you are trying to find.

So your homework is:

1. Find an article about your chosen topic that has at least 6 paragraphs.
2. Print it out.
3. Read the topic sentence (and look at the conclusion sentence) of each paragraph.
4. Label each paragraph with 1-2 words that you think describe it well.
5. Check out the rest of each paragraph to see how well it worked.
6. Turn in!