Writing A Research Paper: A Guide

What image comes into mind as we hear the words 'Research Paper': working with stacks of articles and books; hunting the 'treasure' of others' thoughts; preparing research report on the basis of primary or secondary data? Whatever image we create, it's a sure bet that we're envisioning sources of information-articles, books, people, and artworks. Yet a research paper is more than the sum of sources, more than a collection of different pieces of information about a topic, and more than a review of the literature in a field. A research paper analyzes a perspective or argues a point. Regardless of the type of research paper the researcher is writing, the researcher should present his own thinking backed up by others' ideas and information. A research paper involves surveying a field of knowledge in order to find the best possible information in that field and that survey can be orderly and focused. Classification of Paper into one or the other Category Pick the category which most closely describes the paper. Though some papers can fit into more than one category but it is good to assign the paper to one of the categories listed below to facilitate searching within the database:  Research Paper: This category covers papers which report on any type of research undertaken by the author(s). The research may involve the construction or testing of a model or framework, action research, testing of data, market research or surveys, empirical, scientific or clinical research.

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Writing research papers presents numerous different challenges, which vary from how to layout the various pages and format the text to what to include in the different sections that make up the paper. In order to clarify these issues this paper sets out guidelines and best practice approaches and demonstrates their use in the style of this paper.

Organisation of Book: The book is organized into two parts. Part one starts with thinking critically about research, explains what is (and isn’t) research, explains how to properly use research in your writing to make your points, introduces a series of writing exercises designed to help students to think about and write effective research papers. Instead of explaining how to write a single “research paper,” The Process of Research Writing part of the book breaks down the research process into many smaller and easier-to manage parts like what is a research paper, starting steps for writing research papers, writing conceptual understanding and review of literature, referencing including various styles of referencing, writing research methodology and results including interpretations, writing implications and limitations of research and what goes into conclusions. Part two contains sample research articles to demonstrate the application of techniques and methods of writing good resear...

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Medical research writing is mostly similar as writing in other specialties. Some research workers make it so easily while many of these fails to do. This may happen due to lack of proper knowledge concerned with research methodology. The present review article will definitely be helpful to new research workers, postgraduate students etc. in the process of writing a new task or project. It is a very hectic and tedious job of proper selection of journal suitable for article publication. Most of the publication house or organizations provide option of online submission & processing of manuscript. Be careful during searching online portals & their authenticity. Writing manuscript becomes considerably easier once author clearly defines his research question. Make time frame for every work & step over the paper like study design, reference collection, data collection, writing etc. Start writing from first day of your data collection. It is very important step of research writing. This provides plenty of time for revision-referencing & boost your confidence. This makes your discussion part stronger & improves accuracy in references selection.

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A research paper is a verbal presentation of research finding in reliable and persuasive manner. A researcher has a problem/question or questions on particular subject, area or issue. A research finds the answer to this question. The answer of this question is the finding of the research. A thesis statement is a sentence that includes the finding of the research, the main point of the research paper. The paper clearly states the main point and supports it with reasoning, data, examples and interpretations. The topic of the research paper includes the research area and the perspective of the researcher on it. In other words, it attempts to provide a glimpse of the main point as far as possible. The topic is linked to thesis statement. The thesis statement is clarified and a bit more elaborated in abstract. "Keywords" in research paper lists some words that are closely related to the main point of the paper. Introduction briefly presents the background of the research area a...

guideline to write a research paper.

In between the choosing of a topic and the final typing of the last revision lie a series of skills which, if learned thoroughly, might well be the most important and most permanent academic possession acquired in four years of college. Specifically, you need to learn how to: delve deeply into a topic; find and select raw data; reflect, speculate, and mediate upon implications and relationships; glimpse and follow insights; establish logical categories; organize an outline; think and write with clarity and precision; and revise.

This document provides some minimal guidelines (and requirements) for writing a research paper. Issues related to the contents, originality, contributions, organization, bibliographic information, and writing style are briefly covered. Evaluation criteria and due dates for the research paper are also provided. These guidelines were developed for the students of the software engineering courses, however, the guidelines are general enough to be used by any EECS student, particularly those enrolled in EECS801.