READING AND WRITING SKILLS 3.

Finding Sources in the Library

REVIEWER  Dewey Decimal System
2ND SEMESTER- 4TH QUARTER  000- General Knowledge
 100-Philosophy and
TOPIC OUTLINE Psychology
 200-Religion
 MODES OF PARAGRAPH  300-Social Sciences
DEVELOPMENT  400-Languages
 500-Science
 CASUAL ANALYSIS  600-Technology
 NARRATIVE WRITING  700-Arts and Recreation
 DEFINITION  800-Literature
 DIVISION AND  900-History and
CLASSIFICATION Geography
 COMPARISON AND  Encyclopedias & Disciplinary
CONTRAST Guides
 EXEMPLIFICATION  Books, Periodicals,
 PERSUASION Newspapers and Magazines
 Using internet sources
 WRITING FOR DIFFERENT  View url
CONTEXTS  Question the author
 Detailed informationn,
 WRITING THE RESEARCH accuracy and grammar
PAPER  Timeliness
 WRITING PROJECT 4. Making a Working
PROPOSALS Bibliography
 WRITING FOR COLLEGE  List of all sources you have
AND EMPLOYMENT come across as you are
APPLICATION doing your research.
 WRITING OFFICE  ULTIMATE PURPOSE:
CORRESPONDENCES make it easier for you as a
researcher to go back to
WRITING RESEARCH PAPER previously acquired sources
when you keep on acquiring
1. Planning Research more.
 Work with a familiar subject
 Try something new that PLAGIARISM
piques your interest  1620
 Browse through available  Both unconsciously and
research materials consciouly copying of
2. Finding Primary Sources someone’s work and
 Observation claiming the copy as your
 Ethnography (“ethno”- own without due citation.
race, culture; “-graphy”-
to study) COMMON EXAMPLES OF
 Interviews PLAGIARISM:
 Entails planning and
setting up
 notetaking
DIRECT PLAGIARISM
- verbatim copying of any part of
your source material to your own
research paper, without including
quotation marks, in-text citations,
and a bibliography.
SELF-PLAGIARISM
- using your own previous work, or
a combination of words you used
in your previous works and passing it
to your instructor as a new
submission without the knowledge
of all instructors involved in your
previous and current submissions.
MOSAIC PLAGIARISM
- is also called “patch writing”
- the author attempts to paraphrase
a source into his/her own paper but
maintains the original syntax or
sentence structure.
ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM
- is done unintentionally
- there is an attempt to paraphrase,
summarize, and quote, in-text
citation and bibiliography are still
mainly forgotten usually due to
carelessness.
THE APA CITATION GUIDE
- APA (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
OF PSYCHOLOGISTS)
- most commonly used in
disciplines under the social sciences
such.
- title given to the bibliography page
using the APA style is ‘References.’
- Other examples:
- Chicago Manual of Style
- MLA (Modern Language
Association)
- Turabian
PARAPHRASING
 Taking one whole paragraph into
consideration and rewriting all of
it using your own words.
SUMMARIZING
 Takes the gist of your resource
material
 Great shorter than the original
body of text you are trying to cite.
QUOTING
 Acknowledging any idea from
another source by placing
selected passages inside the
quotation marks [“..”], to provide
bibliographic entry at the end of
the paper for every quote used in
your text.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
 Documents that are written for
problem solving, service
provision, event planning, or
equipment selling.
 It is used to convince the
reader to do what the proposal
suggests.
FORMATTING THE PROJECT
PROPOSAL
1. INTRODUCTION
a) RATIONALE- identifies the
problem to be addressed and
shows the need to solve it.
b) OBJECTIVES- reveal what
the project intends to achieve
in terms of results.
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Results oriented
- Time frame (realistic)
c) BENEFITS- show what the
reader or the target audience
can gain from the proposal

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
a) METHODOLOGY- details
the different activities the
project will take on, including
the manpower and resouces to
be utilized, and the expected
output.
b) SCHEDULE- discusses the
task duration and expected start
and end datas of each activity in
the project.
c) BUDGET- analysis of all
costs anticipated in the project,
which can be itemized or shown
as a whole, depending on the
needs of the project.
WRITING THE PROPOSAL
 GATHERING DATA
-Needs concrete data to
back up its claims so it can
become more credible.
 ORGANIZING DATA
- proposal becomes more
effective if the information on
it is clearly organized.
 WRITING THE PROPOSAL
- draft your proposal by filling
out the parts of the proposal
with the relevant data.
 REVISING THE PROPOSAL
- make sure to review
your proposal for accuracy
and organization before you
send it out.
FORMAT OF PROJECT
PROPOSAL
NAME OF PROJECT
MUNICIPALITY
PROPOSED
IMPLEMENTING
NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
AGENCY
OBJECTIVES
TARGET PHYSICAL
OUTPUTS
LOCATION OF
PROJECTS
TARGET
BENEFICIARIES
BUDGET
WRITING FOR COLLEGE AND
EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
1. PLANNING YOUR CAREER
a) Determining your interests
b) Assessing your qualifications
c) Selecting an academic track
and searching for a college
course or a vocational school
d) Searching for a job
WRITING YOUR RESUME
RESUME
 a document that contains a brief
account of a person’s education,
skills, work experience, and
other qualifications.
1. FORMATTING YOUR RESUME
- most typical format of a resue is the
chronological resume
 HEADING
 OBJECTIVE
 EDUCATION
 HONORS AND AWARDS
 SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
 WORK EXPERIENCE
 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES