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WRITING RESEARCHPAPERS --WORKING THROUG WRITING PROCESS Luo Mingjiang mjluo5686@126.com Sept, 2016 Contents Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Genre Part 3 Topic Part 4 Scope Part 5 Thesis or Question Part 6 Research Part 7 Outline Part 8 First Draft Part 9 Revisions Part 10 Proofreads Additional Resources Part 1 Introduction Step by Step Research Writing Why the Step by Step Approach?Step 1- Getting Started - preparing for the assignment and getting ready to choose a topicStep 2 – Discovering and Choosing a Topic - reading to become informed Step 3 – Looking for and Forming a Focus - exploring your topicStep 4 – Gathering Information - which clarifies and supports your focusStep 5 –Preparing to Write - analyzing and organizing your information and forming a thesis statementStep 6 – Writing the Paper - writing, revising and finalizing Theres a ton of information available online about writing papers for college classes, mostly provided by college and university writing departments. But when your political science or biology or economics instructor assigns you a research paper, writing the paper is only half the battle. Before you can start writing, you have to explore the subject to find a topic, locate relevant information, analyze the issues and organize your arguments. These activities take more time and require different skills than the final step—writing the paper. And many students havent had a lot of formal training in how to do research and prepare information for writing a research paper. Librarians provide a lot of help to students in the exploring, finding and organizing phases of their writing projects. Theyve done research on how students approach these tasks, how they feel while theyre doing them, and what kinds of activities lead to a successful research paper. The paper is your final product, but a research paper involves an extensive process before you