However, doing them is useful experience. Take your best shot and don t worry about the grade it is only one of many. Effective reading is achieved through mental and physical discipline. Find a quiet place, open the book, concentrate on the words, and move your eyes down the pages, if necessary following your hand. Read through once quickly, then go back and reread thoroughly.
Good readers make good writers.
A Reference List, headed Works Cited, contains only those sources you specifically cite in your paper. Next, alphabetize the cards, type a Works Cited into your Research Paper file, print it, and turn it in for correction. You can make subsequent adjustments. Read your sources and transfer significant quotes, in quotation marks, together with your own comments, onto 4X6 index cards, one source per card, indexed by author's name and page number, in dark ink, one side only. 5. No rescheduling or make-ups.