Transcript Slide 1

Lesson 9
 You
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will be asked to write reports:
In school
In business
 Research
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paper:
A document you can use to communicate the
results of research findings
 Follow
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a standard documentation style
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Psychological Association (APA)
 Change
the document settings
 Type the research paper
 Save the research paper
 Create an alphabetical list of sources
 Proof and revise the research paper
 Print the research paper
 Select
a topic
 Research the topic and take notes
 Organize your ideas
 Write the first draft
 Create the list of sources
 Proofread and revise the paper
 Double-space
text
 One-inch top, bottom, right, left margins
 Indent the first word of each paragraph ½ in.
 Page number upper right corner
 Parenthetical
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citations:
(Author’s last name, year published)
 Bibliographic
list of sources at the end of a
paper
 Amount
of vertical space between lines of
text in a paragraph
 Amount
of space above and below a
paragraph
 Text
and graphics that print at the top of
each page in a document
 Text
and graphics that print at the bottom
of every page
 How
to create a bibliography
 How to insert a citation
 Explanatory
 Explanatory
document
note at the bottom of the page
note at the end of the