Lectures in Writing Research Paper, University of Babylon, College of Education for Human Sciences, Department of English
2017-2018
3rd Lecture , 10 October 2017
1.4 The Steps in Writing a Research Paper
There are five steps recommended to be followed when writing a research paper. Your textbook devotes at least one chapter to each step. These steps are the following:
1. Choosing and narrowing a topic
You choose a topic that will lead to a working thesis to guide your research? preferably a topic that interests you and definitely one that is complex enough to have had various books and articles written about it but narrow enough to be dealt with within the length your instructor assigns.
2. Identifying sources
Using the card catalog, indexes, and other research tools, you compile a tentative bibliography? a list of books and articles for potential research.
3. Gathering support
You evaluate the usefulness of the books and articles you locate (their relevance and reliability), collect support material from them (by taking notes), and develop a tentative outline of the paper.
4. Writing the paper
You write and revise your paper, integrating material from your research with your own ideas.
5. Preparing the paper in final form
You put the paper in final form, with attention to format conventions and a meticulous record acknowledging indebtedness for material from research sources, using notes and bibliography.
Note: Students have been asked to comment on each step in a form of a class discussion. This is to help them being familiar with the course material, which is approximately new subject.
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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