by Pieces of Learning Staff Development Presenter Nancy Polette
The standard research paper
encourages copying and data dumping. Using the strategies in Research Without
Copying students
* think critically about what
they read and hear by seeking facts that support the data
* use information in a variety of
ways rather than to simply copy information
* learn research skills and
practices those skills
* change the product so that they
must locate, read, comprehend, analyze, and synthesize information
* learn proven methods and models
moving to analyzing and synthesizing data rather than rote copying of data
* see actual product models that
they feel competent in gathering and using data
* find topics for every day of
the school year so they can explore a broad spectrum of knowledge through
research
Research Without Copying 3rd Expanded Edition
CLC0449
ISBN 978-1-934358-26-9
4th – 9th grades
80p.
