Kittanning Path

This page is currently under construction for use in a little tutorial on writing short articles.
This will be a rough draft, not a finished product. It will be used to demonstrate a way to research and rough draft at the same time. Remember: Rough Draft  No worries at this time about anything but committing research information to the page. (I'll have the article finished in its polished form by 1 PM MST.) There will be three primary stages of your article: Rough Draft, Writing the article, Polishing the article which will include adding links, changing headings, adding a photo, editing the finished product.

Plagiarism: the outright copying of another writer's work. It is illegal and if done in a venue such as our Wiki, can lead to legal consequences if discovered.
=== Paraphrasing: Part of the research process, it involves gathering information and facts from other sources and paraphrasing what you find, versus copying what you find. None of us are going to travel to Pennsylvania, measure the pathway and gather information at it's source. Instead, we will read the information gathered by others and paraphrase, picking and choosing which pieces of information are useful to us. Here are some generalized points about paraphrasing: ===

1)Never copy a sentence.

2)Change wording at least every 5-7 words.

3)Often the ending of a sentence can be used as the beginning of your own sentence.

4)Look for words that can be substituted for words that are common in the article:

a) Area, location, locale and Vicinity can frequently be interchangably

b) Living, inhabiting, lived, inhabited, resided in, can be interchanged

c) Native American, First Nation People, American Indian Tribe, Cherokee people, Choctaw people, etc.  (Never terms like Redskins, Indians etc.) Be PC.

First Action: Split your screen into a research page and a writing page. You can either work on the new page or your sandbox, depending on how much time you feel you'll need to complete the article.

Second Action: Place your links. You can make them pretty later on, just get them in first so that you don't forget them. At the bottom of most pages there is a section for Categories. Further reading and research can be done on those articles as well and, if information is taken from those pages, add a link to them.

Third Action: What do you plan to emphasize? What is the purpose of the article? Migratory Routes? Information about Native Americans? Information about the state itself? Categorize your article. It helps you not to forget to categorize, but more importantly, it helps you to stay focused on your emphasis.

Getting Started:
add your link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittanning_Path

add your categories:  Category:Indians of the United States

Begin your page by reading the article you are researching. Decide how you want to arrange your article. For this article, let's use Chronological order. This article basically breaks down into four sub headings: Earliest History, Geographic Description, Historic Uses, Modern Day Preservation If you prefer other titles, feel free to use whichever titles for your sub headings that you like.