Writing the Research Paper

1. Writing the Research Paper Chinfen Chen

2. Definition of the Research Paper • Seek out information about a subject • Take a stand on it • Back it up with the opinions, ideas, and views of others

3. Format of the Research Paper • Every research paper conforms to a specific format, an agreed-upon way of writing papers: • Modern Language Association, MLA • American Psychological Association, (APA) • Governing the placement of the title, the width of the margins and the notation.

4. Benefits from Writing the Research Papers • Learn a lot about the subject. • Learn the conventions of scholarly writing. • Learn the skills of library searching • Learn the skills of information processing, to organize, to discriminate the useless & useful opinions and to summary, to budget your time, to conceive of the project, manage it, and assemble information into a coherent paper.

5. Report & Research Papers • Report papers: summarize and report your findings on a particular subject, without evaluation or judgment: listing the opinions of global experts or reporting chronologically • Research papers: take a definite stand on a issue, to argue against or to defense

6. Report & Research Papers • Writing a research paper need to exercise judgment, to evaluate evidence, and to construct a logical argument. • Generally, producing a good paper takes three drafts, -recursive movement.

7. Select a topic Exploratory scanning and reading of sources Gather and assemble data Draft a thesis statement Outline the major parts of the paper Write a rough draft and acknowledge all borrowed ideas Prepare a bibliography Final draft Steps and Schedule