Country Report --Editing Notes
- 1. January 3, 2012 +Unit 9 Spelling Pre-Test & Lists +County Report Editing Notes Spelling & Vocabulary: Unit 9 +Spelling Post Test on Friday, January 6th +Vocabulary pgs. 102-103 due on Friday, January 6th Homework: -Due Friday, Jan. 6->Typed Draft (print 2 copies) -Due Monday, Jan. 9->Adult Edit (signed form & edited paper) -Due Friday, Jan. 13->Country Report (Title Page, Outline, Paper, Works Cited Page, Map, Flag, EC) 1
- 2. Miss Pfund's Comments from your Country Reports... Absolutely NO... Friendly Reminders... -Sentence Fragments -Numbers >100, use numerical form Numbers <100, spell out -Parentheses -Explain yourself clearly! -Dashes ex. President-Barak Obama -Subject and Verb must agree! ex. Many tourists is visiting Egypt -Questions each year. -Vague word choice -YOU ARE NOT A TRAVEL AGENT. ex. things, a lot, stuff -Watch repetition -"In conclusion...", "Here are some facts...", "I will tell you...", "You can -Use a topic sentence see..." -History should be written in past -Plagarism tense and in chronological order. (Are these your own words? Do you know what this means? 2
- 3. Citing your Sources In the body of your report, there will be times when you need to tell where you got your information. This is known as citing your sources. Anytime you give statistics, opinions, or material that is contrary to popular belief or is only found in one source, you MUST tell where that information came from. Here’s how: After the information, put parentheses. In the parentheses put the author’s last name and the page number, like this. (Jones 14) This tells the reader you used the book by someone named Jones and this information was on page 14 of that book. For an internet source do it the same way. If there is no author listed, put the title of the article/website and page number, if given. You do not have to tell where all your information came from. For example, almost every source would say that George Washington was the first president. That is considered common knowledge and it would not be necessary to tell where you got that material. 3
- 4. Attachments http://www.bibme.org