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Expository Writing: Focus on Research Reports (4-12)/Flex Course

 

Do your students struggle when they have to write anything other than a narrative essay or story? This online course focuses on helping students learn how to write research reports. The focus will be on teaching students organizational patterns, as well as how to develop an outline and thesis statement. Teaching students how to do research and then read and paraphrase for writing will also be emphasized. Teachers will gain assessment strategies as well.

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Unit One

  • Writing Standards
  • Choosing a Research Topic
  • Test #1
  • Assignment #1: Write an autobiography
  • Assignment #2: Article reflection

Unit Two

  • Types of Sources
  • Research on the Internet
  • Research Using Traditional Sources
  • Test #2

Unit Three

  • Taking Notes
  • Organizing Notes
  • Developing an Outline
  • Test #3
  • Assignment #3: Respond to a classmate

Unit Four

  • Writing an Introduction
  • How to Paraphrase
  • Writing the Report
  • Writing a Conclusion
  • Test #4

Unit Five

  • Developing the Bibliography
  • Revision
  • Editing
  • Test #5

Unit Six

  • Assessment
  • Assignment #4: Develop the guidelines and rubric for a research paper assignment