Monday, February 11, 2013

Research Papers

Writing a research paper


Writing a research paper is essential to us at any part of our life; be it at school, work or for personal attainment. Research writing can sometimes be fun and tedious depending on the purpose of its writing. Many a times it is done for academic purposes as well as concentration on a certain job task towards project management. There are many examples to it: 
a) research paper
b) research report
c) research proposal

THE SCIENTIFIC FORMAT: A RESEARCH PAPER OUTLINE:
Page 1:
Title, Author, Work/School
Page 2:
Abstract: A short summary of the article.
Page 3-:
Introduction
Current theories about the topic. What are the hypothesis for the paper?
Methods
What method used.
Results
What were the results obtained?
Discussion and Conclusion
What are our thought about the results compared to other relevant theories.
References
Through the text there are references, sources of knowledge, which you've used. Citing those will give you more credibility because good research is thought to be based on other knowledge and empirical (observed) evidence.
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Hopefully you could make use of this example of a research paper!
http://sagacious-edge.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-come-with-transformation-ict.html
Attached together here is the ARP example in ms.word format. (ARP - Academic Research Paper)


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