最近要写分布式并行计算的作业，由于自己在本科的时候，并没有使用过国外的查重系统，所以对
英文学术写作是很了解。因此，本系列主要是学习coursera《面向论文写作的研究导论》
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Choosing a Topic
The goal of first week learning:
- describe some characteristics of research paper
- describle some differences among various research assignments
- narrow an assigned topic by creating a research question
Choosing a Research Paper
- expore a complex issues
- has considerable length
- uses sources
The research Assigment would be differed by department/ field of study
Differ by teacher, like:
- synthesize aiticles that I read
- come up my ideas
MLA formating
topic:
media coverage of wars
research questions:
Are violent images appropriate for publications?
topic:
crime in the U.S
research question:
Are 3-strikes laws effective in reducing crime?
search terms should be narrowed:
search-terms:
3-strikes laws,
effects of 3 strikes laws,
3-strikes reducing crime,
3-strikes crime reduction
Sample Research
The guidance to write a research paper should folllow as the link:
http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/writing.html
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Finding and Evaluating Academic Sources
以车祸举例，
primary: 当事人
secondary: newspaper写了这个报道，这这个报道就是secondary source
scholarly: 行业专家写的文章
popular: 不能用
book or other print source
electronic source
不要用以下sources
Google.com
Yahoo.com
Reddit.com
wikipedia.org
blogs
social media
People Magazine
US magazine
The national
Enquirer
TMZ