Open Educational Resources

This Open Educational Resource provides a PDF that incorporates a variety of information, prompts, strategies, and instructions for researching a global issue, which correlates with the controversial research paper students will be completing.

This resource provides activities that help activate prior knowledge and establish the necessity for specific writing elements, such as tone and diction.

Academic and formal writing are imperative in creating flawless research papers. This source provides a refresher regarding proper use of specific style in writing.

With MLA formatting being a necessity in the research process and a major part of the assessment rubric, this source helps provide guidance on MLA formatting and how to properly incorporate it.

This Open Educational Resource is greatly beneficial in reflecting on nonfiction sources, citing these sources correctly, and beginning steps to synthesize and analyze the information.

The Curriki resource "Evaluating a Website for Research" provides a great rubric for evaluating sources and determining how effective or ineffective the source would be in substantiating a claim in the formal research paper.

The "Complete Research Manual" is a great source for planning and implementing a research unit. This includes 9 steps for working through the research process in a systematic and strategic manner.

This resources is a great infographic that communicates a visual that lays out the writing process in a strategic manner that is engaging and appealing to various learners.

"The Research Essay" thoroughly communicates the research process with an in-depth and detailed PowerPoint to share with learners.

"The Writing Process" incorporates various steps to use in tackling the writing process and creating a formal research paper.