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RESEARCH INFORMATION FORM EXAMPLE—RETAIN FOR REST OF COURSE
RESEARCH TOPIC: Isaac Bashevis Singer and Poland
QUESTION: What information can you discover about Singer and Poland?
Bibliography "Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII." Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII. N.p., n.d.
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from easybib
Web. 07 Sept. 2014.
Original Notes (Plagiarized)
Usable Notes: Paraphrase, Summary,
Quotation (only one quotation per source)
How to Paraphrase:
1. It is approximately the same length as the original.
2. Find synonyms to replace an original word.
3. Reverse and/or change the order of the syntax.
4. Check for accuracy and completeness and fluency.
Located mostly in urban areas, large Jewish
communities had flourished in Poland since the
Middle Ages, maintaining their own language, culture,
religious and social institutions, distinct and separate
from the Polish culture around them.
2. Find synonyms
Residing primarily in metropolitan sites, immense Jewish
groups had prospered in Poland since medieval times,
supporting their own speech, customs, religion, and social
practices, unique and disassociated from the Polish ethos
surrounding them.
3. Reverse and/or change order of syntax
Unique and disassociated from the Polish ethos surrounding
the immense Jewish groups that had prospered in the
metropolitan sites of Poland since medieval times, these
groups supported their own speech, customs, religion, and
social practices.
5. Check for accuracy, completeness, and fluency
Although an immense population of Jewish people had
grown and prospered in Poland since medieval times, they
managed to retain their own speech, customs, religion, and
social practices even though they were surrounded by the
ethos of the Polish.
Acceptable Paraphrase
Although an immense population of Jewish people had
grown and prospered in Poland since medieval times, they
managed to retain their own speech, customs, religion, and
social practices even though they were surrounded by the
ethos of the Polish.
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RESEARCH INFORMATION FORM
RESEARCH TOPIC: Isaac Bashevis Singer and Poland
QUESTION: What information can you discover about Singer and Poland?
Bibliography "Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII." Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII. N.p., n.d.
Cut and paste
from easybib
Web. 07 Sept. 2014.
Original Notes (Plagiarized)
Usable Notes: Paraphrase, Summary,
Quotation (only one quotation per source)
How to Summarize:
1. A summary is shorter than the original.
2. Find synonyms for original words.
3. Change syntax.
4. Some details must be left out.
5. Check the accuracy and fluency.
Located mostly in urban areas, large Jewish
communities had flourished in Poland since the
Middle Ages, maintaining their own language, culture,
religious and social institutions, distinct and separate
from the Polish culture around them.
2. Find synonyms
Residing primarily in metropolitan sites, immense Jewish
groups had prospered in Poland since medieval times,
supporting their own speech, customs, religion, and social
practices, unique and disassociated from the Polish ethos
surrounding them.
3. Reverse and/or change order of syntax
Unique and disassociated from the Polish ethos surrounding
the immense Jewish groups that had prospered in the
metropolitan sites of Poland since medieval times, these
groups supported their own speech, customs, religion, and
social practices.
4. Shorten by leaving some details out
Disassociated from the ethos surrounding them, Jewish
people had prospered in Polish cities and protected their
own rich culture from taint.
5. Check accuracy and fluency
Even though Jewish people had grown and thrived in Poland
since medieval times, they preserved their own language
and customs.
Acceptable Summary
Even though Jewish people had grown and thrived in Poland
since medieval times, they preserved their own language
and customs.
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RESEARCH INFORMATION FORM
RESEARCH TOPIC: Isaac Bashevis Singer and Poland
QUESTION: What information can you discover about Singer and Poland?
Bibliography "Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII." Conditions for Polish Jews During WWII. N.p., n.d.
Cut and paste
from easybib
Web. 07 Sept. 2014.
Original Notes (Plagiarized)
Located mostly in urban areas, large Jewish
communities had flourished in Poland since the
Middle Ages, maintaining their own language, culture,
religious and social institutions, distinct and separate
from the Polish culture around them.
Usable Notes: Paraphrase, Summary,
Quotation (only one quotation per source)
How to Quote:
1. A sentence, or a portion of a sentence, is taken verbatim
from the original.
2. Whatever is taken verbatim must be placed in quotation
marks.
3. At the end of the quotation, or within the sentence, the
writer must use parenthetical documentation to give
credit to source.
4. QUOTES MAY NEVER STAND ALONE!
Example of Quotation with a Dialogue Tag
Lyle Sobieski says of the pre-World War II situation, “Located
mostly in urban areas, large Jewish communities had
flourished in Poland since the Middle Ages, maintaining their
own language, culture, religious and social institutions,
distinct and separate from the Polish culture around them”
(“Conditions”).
 parenthetical documentation
According to the website “Conditions,” “[L]arge Jewish
communities had flourished in Poland since the Middle Ages,
maintaining their own language, culture, religious, and social
institutions, distinct and separate from the Polish culture
around them.” (The reason we don’t use parenthetical
documentation in this example is because we cited the
source at the beginning of the sentence.)
Example of a Partial Quote Embedded Within a Sentence
Although the Jewish people of pre-World War II had
preserved its “own language, culture, religious and social
institutions, distinct and separate from the Polish culture
around them,” Hitler obliterated entire Jewish population
centers, in his efforts to extinguish what he believed to be
an inferior human form (“Conditions”).