Category: Level 3 pages
Authorship & Authority
When you consider the quality of your sources, you should also consider the authorship and authority of your sources. Who wrote the material? Is that person or organization credible? The following interaction will provide...
Thesis Statement Activity
After completing this activity, you may download or print a completion report that summarizes your results. To save a PDF copy of the report, click below and follow instructions for your browser.
Research Questions
Now that you have seen how to narrow a topic, it’s time to see how you can take your topic and develop a good research question. Click through the following tabs to see how...
Narrowing Process
The example we’ll use to demonstrate a narrowing process will be World War II. Suppose you want to write your research paper on World War II. The material written on World War II has...
What Does It Look Like?
Select the video below to see a presentation which will provide you with a basic outline for developing a process essay.
Tips on Writing an Annotated Bibliography
You need a relatively narrow focus (a relatively narrow research question or a working thesis sentence with a clear angle) in order to gain value from doing an annotated bibliography. As you research, select...
Annotating Sources
As a part of your argumentative research process, your professor may require an argumentative annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a list of potential sources for your paper or project with summaries and evaluations....
Rough Drafts
In this section of the Excelsior OWL, you have been learning about traditional structures for expository essays (essays that are thesis-based and offer a point-by-point body), but no matter what type of essay you’re writing,...