This document provides guidance on writing a history research paper. It begins by outlining the basic structure of a research paper, then discusses how to write an effective thesis statement. The document explains that a thesis statement should be focused, clear, specific, and original. It presents questions to consider when formulating a thesis statement, such as whether it is placed prominently, too general, or clear enough. Sample thesis statements are provided and revised to be more focused and precise. Finally, the document provides recommendations for writing the paper, including using a sample paper as a guide, employing proper formatting, citing sources, running plagiarism checks, and obtaining feedback before submitting.
Lecture 3 of the Research Methods Lecture series.
See notes for this lecture, also uploaded here : http://www.slideshare.net/lenallis/research-methods-lectures-notes
This lecture series aims to cover the basics of research methods for undergraduate students. By the end of the series students should understand:
-Why research is important
-How to identify good and bad sources of information
-How read critically
-How to write clearly
-Quantitative and Qualitative research
-The basics of experimental method
The overall point should be for students to take the activity of research seriously, but also to be motivated to go and conduct research and engage critically with material.
Brainstorming, Thesis Statement, Outline, First Draft and Final draft. This slide show takes you through the Btoff steps and how to compose a 5 paragraph academic essay.
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Your introduction is the first impression that your readers will get off your essay. If it does not interest them or they do not like what they read, then they will not take the time to read the rest of your paper.
Lecture 3 of the Research Methods Lecture series.
See notes for this lecture, also uploaded here : http://www.slideshare.net/lenallis/research-methods-lectures-notes
This lecture series aims to cover the basics of research methods for undergraduate students. By the end of the series students should understand:
-Why research is important
-How to identify good and bad sources of information
-How read critically
-How to write clearly
-Quantitative and Qualitative research
-The basics of experimental method
The overall point should be for students to take the activity of research seriously, but also to be motivated to go and conduct research and engage critically with material.
Brainstorming, Thesis Statement, Outline, First Draft and Final draft. This slide show takes you through the Btoff steps and how to compose a 5 paragraph academic essay.
Elements of an Essay - Writing an Introduction ParagraphOxford Tutoring
Your introduction is the first impression that your readers will get off your essay. If it does not interest them or they do not like what they read, then they will not take the time to read the rest of your paper.
Link here for the Google Slide version that is often updated: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lfwqsbgxQ-6TDkiheTGGExNbOetYKg5MbmHuufXflpE/edit?usp=sharing
This is an updated version of my former thesis statement slideshow. It shows students how to begin developing a thesis statement and what to consider along the way.
I stole the classic title here from the mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Similarly, Tiger Woods used "How I play golf" for the manual to his trade, so I also copy him. While clearly I am not as great as either, to date I have about 140 published scientific outputs, written with around 60 different collaborators, and these have been cited in around 15,000 articles. This bruising experience has taught me a lot about how to write, and I will pass on all I can in an hour (but no bruises!). You will get plenty of advice here also from Bertrand Russell, Thomas&Turner, Peter Medawar, Kristin Cashore, Simon Peyton-Jones, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, and Stephen King ... and not so much from Tiger Woods.
Writing a Research Paper on Schizophrenia you should use a few sources of information and we offer you to watch this presentation as well. More tips are in this article https://essay-academy.com/account/blog/schizophrenia-research-paper
Link here for the Google Slide version that is often updated: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lfwqsbgxQ-6TDkiheTGGExNbOetYKg5MbmHuufXflpE/edit?usp=sharing
This is an updated version of my former thesis statement slideshow. It shows students how to begin developing a thesis statement and what to consider along the way.
I stole the classic title here from the mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Similarly, Tiger Woods used "How I play golf" for the manual to his trade, so I also copy him. While clearly I am not as great as either, to date I have about 140 published scientific outputs, written with around 60 different collaborators, and these have been cited in around 15,000 articles. This bruising experience has taught me a lot about how to write, and I will pass on all I can in an hour (but no bruises!). You will get plenty of advice here also from Bertrand Russell, Thomas&Turner, Peter Medawar, Kristin Cashore, Simon Peyton-Jones, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, and Stephen King ... and not so much from Tiger Woods.
Writing a Research Paper on Schizophrenia you should use a few sources of information and we offer you to watch this presentation as well. More tips are in this article https://essay-academy.com/account/blog/schizophrenia-research-paper
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How to Write A Research Paper? - Useful Tips For Successful Academic WritingResearchLeap
Academic writing is a style of writing that makes your work easier to read and understand. No matter how well versed you are with grammar, punctuation and other areas that come into play for writing papers, making a mistake with the content hurts your overall academic writing.
The purpose of academic writing is to make your work clear and understandable to whoever is reading and/or evaluating it. Another important part of academic writing is ensuring that your work is fully and correctly referenced. The tips in Research Leap Manual on Academic Writing contain practical methods of creating an academic paper which your readers will easily follow. With this guide, you will learn how to:
Choose a topic
Think (brainstorm)
Build an organized text
Write good introduction, thesis, body and conclusion parts
Format your writing
Reference your work
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Academic writing is a style of writing that makes your work easier to read and understand. No matter how well versed you are with grammar, punctuation and other areas that come into play for writing papers, making a mistake with the content hurts your overall academic writing.
The purpose of academic writing is to make your work clear and understandable to whoever is reading and/or evaluating it. Another important part of academic writing is ensuring that your work is fully and correctly referenced. The tips in Research Leap Manual on Academic Writing contain practical methods of creating an academic paper which your readers will easily follow. With this guide, you will learn how to:
Choose a topic
Think (brainstorm)
Build an organized text
Write good introduction, thesis, body and conclusion parts
Format your writing
Reference your work
Get expert academic writing tips straight to your inbox, and become a better academic writer. Download our PDF manual right now from the attachment.
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Adapted from: the University of Chicago Writing Program
2: Preparing to write and drafting the paper
Preparing to prove your point: the process of gathering evidence
Once you understand the assignment, your next task is to find data relevant to meeting it. The word "data" makes some humanists flinch a bit, but we need a word that distinguishes all the facts, quotations, references, numbers, events that might be relevant to your assignment from those fact, quotations, references, etc. that might support your specific claim or point. All the information related to your assignment is data; data becomes evidence when you use it to convince readers to agree with your point.
There isn’t space here to discuss the process of reading critically and selecting data,
thinking about what you have gathered, analyzing it, and discovering the point or claim that you want to make and support. Every assignment will ask you to look at your readings in a different way, and every text you read will raise its own problems of interpretation and analysis. In fact, that is what most of your classes are about: selecting and analyzing data, and arriving at a plausible conclusion about them.
The best generic advice we can give is this:
· Go through your readings once and mark with a highlighter everything you think plausibly relevant to answering the assignment.
· So that you can get a sense of it all, go through a second time, skimming what you have highlighted.
· Go through a third time, marking passages that seem most central to your assignment. Try to assign to each passage a key word that will help you sort them later.
· Now try to categorize those passages according to how they might support different points. Which ones support one point, which ones support another point. (Spend the time it takes to find data that might support different, even opposing, points. You need such data so that you can critically balance one point against another.)
· On a piece of paper, jot down what you think are the central concepts that emerge from this analysis.
· To these central concepts attach subsidiary concepts. Use some sort of symbol to represent the kinds of relationships that the subsidiary concepts have to the central concepts and to one another: cause and effect, similarity, contrast, more important-less important, earlier-later in time, and so on. Spend time playing with these relationships. Make lists of the central concepts, order and re-order them, find categories and subcategories.
· Then create a working outline around topics suggested by your categories of evidence.
At this point, you may have a fairly clear idea about the point you want to make; more often, you won't. Either way, if you have even a dim idea about the shape of your general point, prepare to start your first draft.
Planning your first draft: styles of outlining
You may have been told in high school that you needed a detailed outline before you began to draft a paper. For some writers, .
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Adapted from: the University of Chicago Writing Program
2: Preparing to write and drafting the paper
Preparing to prove your point: the process of gathering evidence
Once you understand the assignment, your next task is to find data relevant to meeting it. The word "data" makes some humanists flinch a bit, but we need a word that distinguishes all the facts, quotations, references, numbers, events that might be relevant to your assignment from those fact, quotations, references, etc. that might support your specific claim or point. All the information related to your assignment is data; data becomes evidence when you use it to convince readers to agree with your point.
There isn’t space here to discuss the process of reading critically and selecting data,
thinking about what you have gathered, analyzing it, and discovering the point or claim that you want to make and support. Every assignment will ask you to look at your readings in a different way, and every text you read will raise its own problems of interpretation and analysis. In fact, that is what most of your classes are about: selecting and analyzing data, and arriving at a plausible conclusion about them.
The best generic advice we can give is this:
· Go through your readings once and mark with a highlighter everything you think plausibly relevant to answering the assignment.
· So that you can get a sense of it all, go through a second time, skimming what you have highlighted.
· Go through a third time, marking passages that seem most central to your assignment. Try to assign to each passage a key word that will help you sort them later.
· Now try to categorize those passages according to how they might support different points. Which ones support one point, which ones support another point. (Spend the time it takes to find data that might support different, even opposing, points. You need such data so that you can critically balance one point against another.)
· On a piece of paper, jot down what you think are the central concepts that emerge from this analysis.
· To these central concepts attach subsidiary concepts. Use some sort of symbol to represent the kinds of relationships that the subsidiary concepts have to the central concepts and to one another: cause and effect, similarity, contrast, more important-less important, earlier-later in time, and so on. Spend time playing with these relationships. Make lists of the central concepts, order and re-order them, find categories and subcategories.
· Then create a working outline around topics suggested by your categories of evidence.
At this point, you may have a fairly clear idea about the point you want to make; more often, you won't. Either way, if you have even a dim idea about the shape of your general point, prepare to start your first draft.
Planning your first draft: styles of outlining
You may have been told in high school that you needed a detailed outline before you began to draft a paper. For some writers, .
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New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
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He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
5. What is a thesis statement?
◦ Every paper you write should have a main point, a main idea, or central message. The
argument(s) you make in your paper should reflect this main idea. The sentence that
captures your position on this main idea is what we call a thesis statement.
◦ How long should it be?
◦ A thesis statement focuses your ideas into one or two sentences. It should
present the topic of your paper and also make a comment about your position
in relation to the topic. Your thesis statement should tell your reader what the
paper is about and also help guide your writing and keep your argument
focused.
6. Questions to ask when formulating your thesis:
Where is your thesis statement?
You should provide a thesis early in your essay -- in the introduction, or in longer essays in the
second paragraph -- in order to establish your position and give your reader a sense of direction.
Tip: In order to write a successful thesis statement:
Avoid burying a great thesis statement in the middle of a paragraph or late in the paper.
Be as clear and as specific as possible; avoid vague words.
Indicate the point of your paper but avoid sentence structures like, “The point of my paper is…”
7. Questions to ask when formulating your
thesis:
Is your thesis statement specific?
Your thesis statement should be as clear and specific as possible. Normally you will continue to
refine your thesis as you revise your argument(s), so your thesis will evolve and gain definition as
you obtain a better sense of where your argument is taking you.
Tip: Check your thesis:
Are there two large statements connected loosely by a coordinating conjunction (i.e. "and,"
"but," "or," "for," "nor," "so," "yet")?
Would a subordinating conjunction help (i.e. "through," "although," "because," "since") to signal
a relationship between the two sentences?
Or do the two statements imply a fuzzy unfocused thesis?
If so, settle on one single focus and then proceed with further development.
8. Questions to ask when formulating your
thesis:
Is your thesis statement too general?
Your thesis should be limited to what can be accomplished in the specified number of pages. Shape
your topic so that you can get straight to the "meat" of it. Being specific in your paper will be much
more successful than writing about general things that do not say much. Don't settle for three pages
of just skimming the surface.
The opposite of a focused, narrow, crisp thesis is a broad, sprawling, superficial thesis. Compare this
original thesis (too general) with three possible revisions (more focused, each presenting a different
approach to the same topic):
Original thesis:
◦ There are serious objections to today's horror movies.
Revised theses:
◦ Because modern cinematic techniques have allowed filmmakers to get more graphic, horror flicks have
desensitized young American viewers to violence.
◦ The pornographic violence in "bloodbath" slasher movies degrades both men and women.
◦ Today's slasher movies fail to deliver the emotional catharsis that 1930s horror films did.
9. Questions to ask when formulating your
thesis:
Is your thesis statement clear?
Your thesis statement is no exception to your writing: it needs to be as clear as possible. By being as
clear as possible in your thesis statement, you will make sure that your reader understands exactly
what you mean.
Tip: In order to be as clear as possible in your writing:
Unless you're writing a technical report, avoid technical language. Always avoid jargon, unless you are
confident your audience will be familiar with it.
Avoid vague words such as "interesting,” "negative," "exciting,” "unusual," and "difficult."
Avoid abstract words such as "society," “values,” or “culture.”
These words tell the reader next to nothing if you do not carefully explain what you mean by them.
Never assume that the meaning of a sentence is obvious. Check to see if you need to define your
terms (”socialism," "conventional," "commercialism," "society"), and then decide on the most
appropriate place to do so. Do not assume, for example, that you have the same understanding of
what “society” means as your reader. To avoid misunderstandings, be as specific as possible.
10. Example of a clear thesis:
Compare the original thesis (not specific and clear enough) with the revised version (much more
specific and clear):
Original thesis: Although the timber wolf is a timid and gentle animal, it is being systematically
exterminated. [if it's so timid and gentle -- why is it being exterminated?]
Revised thesis: Although the timber wolf is actually a timid and gentle animal, it is being
systematically exterminated because people wrongfully believe it to be a fierce and cold-
blooded killer.
11. Questions to ask when formulating a
thesis:
Is your thesis statement original?
Avoid, avoid, avoid generic arguments and formula statements. They work well to get a rough draft started, but will easily bore a
reader. Keep revising until the thesis reflects your real ideas.
Tip: The point you make in the paper should matter:
Be prepared to answer “So what?” about your thesis statement.
Be prepared to explain why the point you are making is worthy of a paper. Why should the reader read it?
Avoid formula and generic words. Search for concrete subjects and active verbs, revising as many "to be" verbs as possible. A few
suggestions below show how specific word choice sharpens and clarifies your meaning.
Use your own words in thesis statements; avoid quoting. Crafting an original, insightful, and memorable thesis makes a distinct
impression on a reader. You will lose credibility as a writer if you become only a mouthpiece or a copyist; you will gain credibility by
grabbing the reader with your own ideas and words.
A well-crafted thesis statement reflects well-crafted ideas. It signals a writer who has intelligence, commitment, and enthusiasm.
12. Use strong words, not vague words:
Original: “Society is...” [who is this "society" and what exactly is it doing?]
Revised: "Men and women will learn how to...," "writers can generate...," "television addicts
may chip away at...," "American educators must decide...," "taxpayers and legislators alike can
help fix..."
Original: "the media"
Revised: "the new breed of television reporters," "advertisers," "hard-hitting print journalists,"
"horror flicks," "TV movies of the week," "sitcoms," "national public radio," "Top 40 bop-til-you-
drop..."
Original: "is, are, was, to be" or "to do, to make"
Revised: any great action verb you can concoct: "to generate," "to demolish," "to batter," "to
revolt," "to discover," "to flip," "to signify," "to endure..."
14. Sample Paper
To understand introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions, take
a look at this sample paper.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/
15. Font and Formatting
Make sure that your paper is double-spaced and 12 pt font. Use a
legible, professional font like Times New Roman, Times, Garamond,
Georgia, or Arial to name a few.
20. Plagiarism Checker
I highly recommend running your paper through a plagiarism checker online. One that I
recommend is Small Seo Tools. http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
21. Grammar and Spelling Check
Run your paper through an online grammar and spelling checker such as grammarly.com.
22. Go Over Directions &
Rubric
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE FOLLOWED ALL DIRECTIONS AND MET ALL
CRITERIA
23. Turn in Paper
You will need to turn in a typed hard-copy to Miss Duggan or Mrs. Miller. You will also need to
submit a digital file via showbie.com.