The Research Process and Findings

LINUX Maintenance and Troubleshooting

In this section of the paper, you will tell us what you discovered (the story of your hunt). You will tell us where you looked and what you learned. In this section you will still be using a narrative voice (first person "I"), but you also will be paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting the sources you found.

Also, be sure to document all your sources of information using APA documentation.

Here are some guidelines for Part B:

This section should be roughly three to five pages in length.
It should be double-spaced and in a standard 12-point font (Times New Roman or Arial).
You should continue to use the first person "I" perspective to write this section.
You should use a clear method of organization; do not organize the paper source by source, but rather by topic.
You must include information from at least four sources in this section.
You should include a variety of sources (book, magazine article, web site, etc.). I do NOT want to see only web sites used in your report!
You must incorporate effective and correct paraphrasing, summarizing, and quotations-all of these must include appropriate parenthetical citations.
Wikipedia (or any type of *wiki*) NOT allowed as a legitimate source.
Part B MUST include citations in APA format from the sources you use for your paper. You must document your sources NOW and not wait until the final part of the paper is submitted in Unit 5. However, your page of References does not need to be finalized or turned in until Unit 5. Sometimes students use sources but think they can wait until the paper is finalized to cite those sources; this is plagiarism and will be treated as such.
To make the paper read as a cohesive whole, refer to earlier sections of your paper (early experiences you discussed in The Narrative, questions you asked and assumptions you made in The Bridge).
Your voice and your ideas about what you have learned should be the driving force behind this section. Do not make the mistake of simply throwing together a bunch of information you got from your sources. That is too hard for your readers to process. Instead, you should be telling us what you found and then making sense of it for us.
Although I am not looking for grammatical perfection here, I do want to see that you have made an effort to eliminate errors in grammar and sentence structure that would be distracting to your readers.