Research Work

Good evening,
   The weekend is almost over, and if you ask me it went by way too fast! Anyways, I spent my weekend in New Orleans at my grandmothers house where I spent parts of my Saturday and Sunday working on paragraphs of my paper. If I showed you what I accomplished it wouldn't look like much, but to me it is. It is't very detailed at the moment and quotes still need to be added in. It also might help me if I could meet with Dr. D sometime this week and she can help me signal phrase because I'm not to sure on how to do that. When I think of signal phrase I think of trying to fit my quote and author into the sentence/paragraph in an appropriate way that makes sense to the readers.
   Another thing I worked on that was related to my research paper was the reading assignment from Norton. Honestly, I don't like reading long sections from the Norton because I find them boring and too lengthy (they use to many words to describe one thing). This reading homework that we had over the weekend though was short and sweet for me! I didn't think the topic was interesting and there was a few words I didn't quite understand so I circled them. Besides that I think it was an impressive paper. You could tell the "student" researched well and sounded like an expert on the topic. One thing that stood out to me in the Norton research paper that I don't do in mine s put the author and source in parentheses. When I state my article title I try to combine it or merge it into the sentence to where the sentence still makes sense and isn't a comma splice or run-on. Should we be putting our sources in our paper, in parentheses, or under our works cited list?

Friday-50minutes, Finished detailed outline (took out some stuff and added in some details) and picked out a new thesis.
Saturday-1hour 10minutes, Picked out quotes I was going to use and started on the MLA format with one paragraph complete.
Sunday-40minutes, Completed two more rough draft paragraphs.

Have a good week,
ksparkles77