Organize

Step 3: Organize
**3.A How can I put my information together to show that I answered my question? How can I show what I learned?**  >
 * Prepare an outline.
 * Think about who your audience will be.
 * Have you distinguished between fact and opinion?
 * Prepare a rough draft if your project is a paper.
 * Prepare a model if your project is a presentation.
 * Review the outline or model to decide if your project answers your research statement.
 * Do your facts, ideas, and opinion support your research statement?
 * Ask a friend or parent to review your project.
 * Read, re-read, review and revise your project checking grammar and spelling.
 * Are you proud of your final project?
 * 3.B How do I document all the information sources I used?**
 * You need to give credit for all information used in your project. Avoid [|plagiarism].
 * Citation provides the source for any data, information, graphics, sound, or ideas that you use.
 * Your teacher will provide specific instructions for how students should cite sources.
 * Lexington School District One has adopted a research guide based on the MLA format. The link is http://www.lexington1.net/?page=researchguides/rg.htm. Click on [|MLA Bibliographic Citation] // (Doc) // to open a Word Document.
 * Save this document on your student drive.
 * Create a blank word document that will be your bibliography.
 * Copy and paste the needed bibliographic citation format.
 * Remember to double check the formatting on your final bibliography document.

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