Writing students have been focusing on their career research paper. By now, students have found multiple book and web sources with information about their career choice. We've begun using Noodletools.com, a very cool online site that allows students to digitally store their bibliography and notecards. If you remember carrying a stack of index cards for your own research papers, you'll quickly understand why students are loving Noodletools so much. Students are able to create the notecards, link them to their outline and even "pile" all of the relevant cards together. Noodletools is a subscription-based service that students will continue to use through middle school and high school.
We're now entering the drafting stage of the research paper. Students are learning to use facts, cite them with parenthetical citations according to MLA formatting rules, and then explain the factual information in their own words. Students have already written the intro, pros and job duties paragraphs - and will finish the rough draft early this week.
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