common knowledge common knowledge 3 W r i t i n g

Topic
?? Your topic can be anything related  to management, organizational  strategy, ethics, teams, human resource systems, or anything that  is in our textbook.
??My earnest advice: find a topic that you are passionate about writing!

I Happily Accept Two Types of
Research Papers
1.1. Hypothesis Research Paper
2.2. Descriptive Research Paper

Hypothesis Paper
??Hypothesis = Educated Theory
?? Taking a position/stance of what a particular Taking a position/stance of what a particular
study/subject ought to be.study/subject ought to be.
?? However, this is However, this is NOT NOT a Persuasive PaperIntroduction Paragraph
?? Capture reader’s attention:Capture reader’s attention:
?? Interesting and related current event, or interesting and related current event, or
?? Interesting and related statistics/data interesting and related statistics/data
?? Interesting and related historical event interesting and related historical event
?? State the paper’s hypothesis statement by using:State the paper’s hypothesis statement by using:
?? The author hypothesized that …The author hypothesized that …
?? The paper’s hypothesis is that…The paper’s hypothesis is that…
?? State the paper’s THREE (3) main experiments as in State the paper’s THREE (3) main experiments as in
the order of your body paragraph:the order of your body paragraph:
Specifically, the paper will discuss/examine the following: First, Specifically, the paper will discuss/examine the following: First,
state your first experiment; second, state your second state your first experiment; second, state your second
experiment

Body Paragraphs
??State the first experiment as your topic sentence
??Research materials that support the paper’s hypothesis
??Research materials that do not support with the paper’s hypothesis

Body Paragraphs
??Follow the same order for the next two
experiments. In other words, repeat the previous slide!

Conclusion Paragraph
??Quick summary of the paper’s findings
??Most importantly, answer the question:
Whether the paper’s hypothesis has been proven?

Introduction Paragraph
?? Capture reader’s attention:Capture reader’s attention:
?? Interesting and related current event, or interesting and related current event, or
?? Interesting and related statistics interesting and related statistics
?? Interesting and related historical event interesting and related historical event
?? State the paper’s thesis statement by using:State the paper’s thesis statement by using:
?? The paper’s thesis …(state your thesis).The paper’s thesis …(state your thesis).
?? State the paper’s THREE (3) main ideas in the order of State the paper’s THREE (3) main ideas in the order of
your body paragraph:your body paragraph:
?? The paper will discuss/examine the following: First, state The paper will discuss/examine the following: First, state the
the first main thing that your paper would describe; Second, state first main thing that your paper would describe; Second, state
the second main thing; Third, the third main thing.the second main thing; Third, the third main thing.

Body Paragraphs
??State the first main idea as your topic sentence
??Research materials and state the findings.

Body Paragraphs
??Follow the same order for the next two
main ideas.

Conclusion Paragraph
??Quick summary of the paper’s findings

References Page(s)
??There are THREE exceptions when you
do not need to cite.  Outside of these three exceptions, you MUST cite.
??Three exceptions:
1.1. Author’s opinion authors opinions
2.2. Common knowledge common knowledge
3.3. Author’s original ideas

References Page(s)
?? A minimum of 5 sources.  The sources can all be from the Internet.  I simply require you to go on to 5 different websites.
??Of course, you can always research via
books, articles, magazines, newspaper , interviews, and other sources!