RESEARCH PAPER: INFORMATION PREPARATION
After choosing the research topic, you will gather information. This is not simply listing the sources you intend to use in your paper.Rather, this is a presentation of the material you have gathered from the approved sources to use in your paper.
This material consists of the direct quotes, indirect quotes, and other information from each source whichyou plan to incorporate into your paper.You are still in the research phase as you do this.You are going through scholarly sources to find material that you can incorporate into your paper.
The Information Preparation assignment should contain a large amount of material-probably more than you will ultimately use in your paper.
There are 2ways to organize thematerial for the Information Preparation. They are as follows:
1. Following a properly-formatted bibliographic entry for each resource you intend to use, include quotes, paraphrased material, or bits of information from that resource that you believe you will use in your paper.Preface each item with the topic that it can be used to support in your paper.
2. A second way to organize your document for this assignment is by topics you will cover in the paper.Use the points and sub-points which you intend to cover in your paper as headings for this organizational method. For example, if your paper were on Paul's calling, you might be touching on how his background as a Pharisee prepared him to fulfill his new role.
Type that as a heading, then underneath that paste the bibliographic entry for the first approved source.Underneath that, paste all the items you have found that you can use in your paper to develop that.Repeat that for each quote or piece of information you found from each source.After you have done that, make a new heading for another point which you willbe covering in your paper and repeat the pattern.When you are done, you will have a list of information and direct quotes from approved sources, all organized by topics (that is, points you will be covering in your paper).
Remember that you MUST use approved scholarly sources for your research. You will find pre-approved resources organized by topic in the Assignment Instructions folder.The bibliographic entries for the approved sources are already in the format you need for the Information Preparation assignment.Simply copy and paste the entries into your document at the appropriate places.
The best tool for you to search for the articles in our online library is the ATLA Religion Database.You can access it through the online "Research" portal of the Liberty University ILRC. Go towww.liberty.eduand choose "Library" on the Quicklinks drop-down menu. Under the "Research" heading, click "Resources by Subject." Scroll down to "Religion & Philosophy," then click the "Religion & Philosophy" subheading link.ATLA will be listed first.An ATLA search should lead you to all of the approved articles, and they can all be read online.
Your Research Paper: Information Preparation is due through SafeAssign by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 3.