How to Write a Good Research paper

While this list suggests that the production of such a paper is straightforward and linear, the actual process of producing a research paper is often complex and recursive, so please consider this outline as a flexible guide.

Discover, reduce and focus a researchable subject

• Try to choose a topic you really want
• Try to write your way to a subject
• Talk to your teacher and peers about your subject
• Ask your topic to answer a question or solve a problem

Source selection, selection and reading

You will have to look at the following sources:

• Library catalog, periodic indexes, bibliographies, instructor's suggestions
• primary sources vs. secondary sources
• Newspapers, books, other documents

Information grouping, sequencing, and documentation

The following systems enable you to keep organized:

• a method for bibliography card sources
• a material organization scheme according to its relative relevance
• a note-taking system

Writing an outline and a prospectus

Take the following questions into account:

• What's the subject?
• Why is it important?
• What is the relevant background material?
• What is my thesis or statement of purpose?
• What corporate plan will best support my purpose?

Writing the initiation

• You will have to accomplish the following things in the introduction:
• Present pertinent contextual or background material
• Defining terminology or concepts when required
• Explain the focus and objective of the paper
• Disclose your organizational plan

Body Writing

• Use your outline and brochure as flexible guidelines
• Create an essay on your points (i.e. don't allow your sources to structure your paper)
• Integrate your sources into your debate
• To summarize, analyze, explain, assess, and not just report published work
• Moving up and down from generalization to varying degrees of detail to generalization

Conclusion Writing

• If your paper's argument or thesis is complex, you may need to sum up your reader's reasoning.
• If you haven't expressed the meaning of your findings before your conclusion or if you proceed inductively, utilize the end of your paper to add your arguments to clarify their meaning.
• Move from a detailed to a general level that restores the subject to the context of the introduction.
• Perhaps advise what additional research is needed on this area.

Review of the final draft

Comprehensive organizational checks: logical introductory flow, coherence and body depth of the topic, the efficiency of conclusion.

The level of paragraph concerns: thematic phrases, order of ideas within paragraphs, use of details in support of generalizations, summary phrases if necessary, usage of paragraph-by-paragraph transitions.

Sentence level concerns: phrase structure, word choices, punctuation, orthography.

Documentation: consistent use of one system, citation of all material that is not common knowledge, suitable use of endnotes or footnotes, the precision of the lists mentioned. Documentation: