What experience do you have with writing a research paper? If you’ve written one before, did you love the process of writing the paper? Did you hate the process of writing it? Were you maybe proud of the paper (and yourself) once you finished it even though you found the process of writing it challenging? Feel free to respond to any of the questions above that resonate with you and to share anything else you’d like to share regarding your experience in writing a research paper. Feel free to include some practical tips you’ve learned for how to write a research paper, as well. Your response should be four to seven sentences long.
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To be honest, I don’t recall ever writing a research paper other than a little one in high school. I am familiar with research papers. We generally choose a topic and conduct research on it. One of the things I appreciate about a research paper is that it’s like an adventure where you learn stuff you didn’t know before. Something that resonates with me is that we learn a lot of knowledge from research articles, which we both need and enjoy. However, my total understanding of research publications is limited.
Johir, you seem to have a good attitude toward engaging in this process of writing a research paper. It’s good to think of the process as “an adventure” and it’s also good to be willing and open to learning something in the process.
I’m not familiar with research papers because I don’t seem to have written research papers. I don’t hate the process of writing, but occasionally I enter a period of confusion while writing. Sometimes I don’t know that my essay will digress, but I am still very happy to finish my essay. What this resonates with is that when doing research papers, I will learn all kinds of knowledge in it, so I should like this.
I like you attitude, Guidian. I am glad to hear that you like the process of acquiring more knowledge.
I remembered writing a research paper during my 8th grade, and the topic was decided by myself. I don’t dislike or like the process of writing it because it was a required assignment to complete, but since the topic was choosing by myself, I found to learn new information that was interesting during the process. Some practical tip would be before deciding what to write, choose a topic that you are Interesting in and search out the background information, and then decide your thesis.
Kelly, you bring up a great point about how important it can be for students to choose the topic for themselves. You will surely be allowed to choose your own topic in this class.
I do not have the experience of writing research papers. But I think during the process of writing a research paper, people can think, feel, and study the things in the world deeply. Writing a research paper is a good way to help people look at things from different perspectives and help people to organize their thoughts on a specific topic. I feel the biggest charm of the research paper is that your paper not only can help you learn more about the things in the world and have a clear understanding of them but also help the people who do not know these things have a clear understanding and to be interested in them.
I like you you included “feel” in your description of the things you can do more deeply as you write your research paper, Bing Lin. Ideally, we don’t only open our minds, but our hearts, as well.
I remember writing a research paper in high school for history class about a issue in your community. The topic cannot be too broad or too specific. Additionally, a research paper consist many pages and includes a table of content. There are multiple articles I had to cited for the topic I was working on. For my research paper I had to include background information, how the issue impacts people before and nowadays, concluding with solutions for this issue. Each section was at least a paper long. The most challenging part for me was to start the paper, since I had no clue what I should write about. I don’t like or dislike writing research papers, because even though it is more time consuming, you can learn a lot during the process.
Great point about choosing a topic that isn’t too broad or too specific, Kelly. Choosing the right topic is an art and not a science. It seems to me like you will be able to take some of what you learned in writing this previous research paper and apply it to the process of writing the research paper for this class.
I do have the experience of writing the research paper. Yet I can not recollect the memory of the topic that I wrote. However, I remember I enjoyed the process of writing the research paper. Even though, I do not remember the topic, I do remember that I learned a lot while I was writing the research paper.
It seems like you have some positive associations with writing research papers, May. I am glad to hear this.
I don’t have more experience with writing a research paper. I have done one research paper in high school for the business class. The research paper needs more information than the other paper. The tricky part of the paper is to elaborate the research, and the introduction bit difficult to start. I agree with one thing that it develops the level of knowledge regarding the topic.
Om, my suggestion is that you don’t start with the introduction when you write this paper. Start by simply collecting information, and finding evidence on which you want to elaborate.
I have written couple research papers when I was in high school. The experience was not fun at all. I remember writing two research paper for my Chinese and Spanish seal of Biliteracy, I struggled finding the relevant resources that I can include in my research. Perhaps it is because my computer was set the United States as the region, that is why I couldn’t find any article in Chinese or Spanish. I also found it difficult to put every thoughts together. Even with all the stress, I felt extremely accomplished to finish the paper and get the seal.
That does sound like a bit of a stressful situation, Pin Yuan. I applaud you for following through and writing the paper regardless, and I am glad to hear that you felt accomplished in finishing it.
I don’t have any experience with writing a research paper. But I believe writing a research paper is about sharing experience and knowledge learn from a specific topic. I think it was similar to a lab report. We could have to write calculation and experiment details down and write what we learn from it.
In ways, a research paper can be similar to a lab report, Ruolin. However, I don’t think this paper will be as formulaic as a lab report.
I do have some experience of writing research paper. I don’t remember what I wrote about exactly but I know that I had to do a lot of research before putting my essay together. One thing that I did was finding sources for different perspective on a topic. Not only many sources are needed to write the essay, you also have to check if the sources are reliable and is it bias.
Good points, Yu Yun. Yes, you need multiple sources, and those sources should be credible. I will be there to help you with both finding the sources and with checking their credibility.
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I have never writter a research paper before. the name almost tells the work. I am really interested to learn about this topic. I feel like this is something going to be like a creative learning experience.
I do hope it will be a creative learning experience, Talha. A big part of making it a creative experience is choosing a topic that you genuinely want to learn more about.
I had the experience of writing a research paper before. I don’t remember what I had researched before, but there are lots of information you need to search for. You also had to check if the website is reliable. I don’t enjoy the process of writing papers, but I enjoy it when I finish the paper. Some tips that might be useful is to check if the website had (.org) it is usually reliable.
Great tip, Lei. Thank you for sharing. Also, I can relate to feeling like the process of writing these papers can be difficult, but the completion of these papers being rewarding.
I had the experience writing a research paper in high school, but do not have many memories about it. I think the hardest part of my research paper was that we need to form a mind map around our thesis. We might have to gather many pieces of information about our thesis and put them together to support our thought.
I like this term “mind map” that you used, Janie. I am interested to hear how you’ve created your mind map in the past.