Unit 20 REVISING
REVISING
Проверка
Task 7 Learn the material about revising.
When you have finished the first draft of your paper, you have to find the way to
improve it. Here is the revision checklist.
Checking your Research Paper
1 Does your introduction contain a well-worded thesis statement?
2 Does your research paper support the thesis statement?
3 Did you use transitional devices?
4 Did you use and cite sources correctly?
5 Does your report have unity, coherence, and emphasis?
6 Does your conclusion add a strong ending?
7 Does your report have a title?
Checking your Paragraphs
1 Does each paragraph have a topic sentence?
2 Is each paragraph unified and coherent?
3 Does one paragraph lead smoothly into the text?
Checking your Sentences and Words
1 Are your sentences varied and concise?
2 Did you avoid faulty sentences?
3 Did you use specific words with appropriate connotations?
Task 8 Revise the material in your research paper.
EDITING AND PUBLISHING
Редактирование и публикация
Task 9 Learn the ways of editing and publishing the research paper.
Editing Checklist
1 Are the sentences free of errors in grammar and usage?
2 Did you spell each word correctly?
3 Did you use capital letters where needed?
4 Did you punctuate each sentence correctly?
5 Did you indent paragraphs as needed and leave proper margins on each side of the
paper?
Ways to Publish Writing
You can publish your paper in a newspaper, magazine or a book in a hard-copy form
or publish it in the Internet. Before that one has to deliver the results of research orally or
using presentation multimedia materials, which is preferable nowadays.
Task 10 Edit your research paper using the computer and think of the ways of its
publishing.
Task 11 Read the dialogue and fill the replies according to the context (the adviser
and postgraduate). Reproduce the whole dialogue.
I think I am in the know of the process of citing sources.
I believe I have knowledge and skills enough to write my paper.
What does it contain?
Why should I do it?
Stages of Writing
− Henry, when the prewriting stage is over, there is the stage of drafting. Once you
have synthesized, or pulled together, your research to form an outline, you should
use that outline as the basis of your first draft. As you draft, you want to flesh out
your outline, adding an introduction and conclusion and working the results of your
research into the flow of your paper. You have to evaluate your working thesis.
− (1)
− A clear, well-worded thesis statement expresses your main idea and serves as a
guideline to help you keep on track as you write your first draft. Therefore, before
you start to write, evaluate your working thesis to ensure that it covers all the topics
in your outline. Structuring the research paper is very significant.
− (2)
− It includes title, introduction, thesis statement, body, quotations, and conclusions. It
is a hard job and requires much of the effort. On top of everything else, there is
citing sources.
− (3)
− When you have finished the first draft of your paper, you have to find the way to
improve it: first revise and then edit. Publishing is realized according to standards.
− (4)