research

  So far in my research, I have become more comfortable with conducting research and I have gotten fairly good at figuring out if the source is reliable or not. I think I have learned a lot through my research project. Specifically, I have learned that it is really important to make a good and specific outline so that actually writing your paper or rough draft is a lot easier since all of your ideas are laid out in your outline. This taught me just how important each step of the writing process truly is. Another thing I have learned is citations. I have always known what citations were and briefly how to do them, but now I have learned a lot more about exactly how to write them. I previously thought you had to put the entire citation in the parentheses after every sentence, but now I know you only put the authors last name or the title of the source you are using, like so (Smith).
   I may have learned a lot through this research project, but there are also some things that I still don't quite understand. One thing I still question is when to put a citation behind a sentence. I know you put them after quotes and if you were influenced by that source, but would you also put it behind like dates that are found on multiple sources? For example would you have to put a citation behind like the date of when World War II occurred? Also, I still don't know what else I could add to my conclusion. Right now it does sum up almost everything I talked about throughout my paper, but it's only a few sentences long. Does it need to be longer than that and if so, what else would I add?