From Research to Paper: How to Write a Research Paper Do you feel overwhelmed when you try to pick the right resources to include in your research paper? Do you know how to properly cite your research sources? This workshop shows students how to effective use the research they have completed & put those resources together into a properly cited & well developed research paper.

1. From Research
to Paper:
How to Write a
Research Paper
Presented by
The Northeast Center
Office of Academic Support

2. • What is Research?
Agenda
• Types of Research Papers
• Quick Overview -- Research Process
• I’ve Got All These Resources: Now What?
• Evaluating
Sources
• Developing Your Paper

3. What it is…
“a process of research, critical thinking, source evaluation,
organization, and composition.”
SOURCE:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/2/

4. Two major types of research papers.
•Argumentative research paper: It’s all about
persuasion…
• Analytical research paper: It’s all about the
question and the thinking involved in answering
it…
SOURCE:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/2/

5. Research Process
Organize Yourself
Developing a Topic & Researching It
Source Evaluation
Organize Your Sources
Compose/Revise Cycle
Citing Sources

6. Organize Yourself
http://rpc.elm4you.org/

7. • Step 1 – Clarify the Assignment
• Step 2 – Develop Research Question
Thesis
• Step 3 - Identify Background Source
& Keywords
• Step 4 – Look at What You Found
• Step 5 – Refine Your Question/Thesi
Developing a Topic & Researching I

8. www.esc.edu/library
http://commons.esc.edu/informationskills/
http://commons.esc.edu/informationskills/
resources/table-of-contents/

9. • Step 1 – Annotate & Find “THE” Quo
• Step 2 – Categorize
• Step 3 – Outline/Mindmap
• Step 4 – Plug-in the Resources
Source Evaluation &
Organization

10. Compose
Gather Information
Organize
Draft
Revise
Proof
Get Feedback
Re-proof
Hand in https://bitly.com/UsingResearchPurdue