Describe the process of writing a research or term paper

      

Describe the process of writing a research or term paper

  

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The process of writing a research paper

Writing a research paper calls for more planning from the undergraduate student than the ordinary essay assignment. The following are the areas to be addressed as the writer prepares and produces such papers.

Aims and objectives

A research paper should have general aims and specific objectives. The general aims indicate the direction of investigation in the selected problem area. Specific objective refer to particular aspects of the problem that are being investigated. For example, for the problem cited be stated as:
'To establish whether children whose home linguistics environment is mainly dominated by the medium of instruction before entering nursery school have an advantage over those who mainly speak their mother tongue in the acquisition of new ideas at nursery school.

Whereas the specific objectives would be stated thus:

i. To establish the degree of advantage children who speak the medium of instruction have in
understanding their teachers

ii. To suggest ways of helping children without adequate exposure to the medium of instruction to benefit from their experiences in nursery school.

Writing out the research paper

After identifying his aims and specific objectives and reviewing the literature the researcher writes the first draft of the essay concentrating on the content, argument and organisation. When the first draft is ready, the writer then revises it in the first reading asking himself the following questions.

i. Does the entire essay make sense to me?

ii. Does it answer the questions set?

iii. Does it cover all the main points?

iv. Does it go into sufficient depth?

v. Is all the content relevant?

vi. Have I acknowledged all the sources and clarified my ideas and those of others.

Having satisfied himself on the above the writer will then go on to reread the paper checking the technical aspects thus:

vii. Is the organisation logical
marto answered the question on May 21, 2019 at 07:43


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