Writing Research Paper Help

Writing research paper is usually messy but the list below provides simpler linear writing process that is a reliable guide.

How to Discover, Narrow, and Focus on Research Paper Topic

1. Try finding a truly interesting topic
2. Try to write your way to the topic
3. Discuss the topic with classmates and course instructor
4. Before writing a research paper, pose your chosen topic as a problem requiring a solution or a problem requiring a solution

Research Paper Finding, Selecting and Reading

1.  You need to look at these types of sources when writing a research paper:
2. Library catalog, bibliographies, periodical indexes and suggestions by your instructor
3. Primary and secondary sources
4. Journals, books and other documents

Grouping, Sequencing and Documenting Information

The systems below help you to be organized:

• a system to note sources on the bibliography cards
• a system to organize materials according to relative importance for
• a system to take notes

Writing Your Own Outline and Prospectus

Consider these factors before writing a research paper:

1. The topic
2. Its significance
3. Relevant background material
4. What will be my purpose or thesis statement
5. Best organizational plan to support my purpose

Writing Research Paper Intro

In your introduction, do the following:

• Define concepts or terms when necessary
• Explain focus of the research paper and your exact purpose
• Reveal your organization plan

Research Paper Writing Body

• Use outline and prospectus as the flexible guides
• Build the essay around points that you intend to make (i.e., do not let sources to organize the paper)
• Integrate sources into the discussion
• Rather than merely report published work, summarize, analyze, explain and evaluate it.
• Move up and down “ladder of abstraction”, i.e from generalization to changeable levels of detail then back to generalization.