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Writing A Solid Research Paper

Writing a good research paper is really up to the method that you use to write it and how you’ve organized your materials. Anyone can write a solid research paper that will get a good mark, even if they aren’t the best at writing. It’s all up to the structure and information contained in the paper, and then you can enlist someone else’s help with editing and you’ve got yourself the perfect research paper. To do this, follow the steps below and you’ll learn what kind of skills you need to write this paper.

Research Paper Writing Skills

To start with, you need to get all your materials together. Have your instructions, any notes and past assignments that are related to your topic, and possibly your textbook if it has a section similar enough that you can use as part of your research in this paper. Here are the steps and skills for each one:

1. You first need some outlining skills. Outlines really aren’t that hard; if you’ve never written one before, don’t worry! You basically just need to take the instructions from your teacher and write out each part that you’re going to be marked on. Then, order these in the way they’ll appear in your finished essay. Just write one or two brief sentences to summarize each section of your research paper and then your outline is done.
2. Research skills are needed next. Here’s where you’re going to do all of the researching for your paper. It’s a good idea to do this before writing the first draft, because then you don’t have to rewrite anything. If you had written your paper without knowing much about the subject and then found out the correct facts as you researched, you’ve have to redo the parts where you were incorrect.
3. Now for your writing skills: get the first draft written by elaborating on each of your section summaries and joining your research facts to the opinions and descriptions you already had in your outline.
4. And lastly, you need some editing skills. This is arguably the most important step and skill to have. Editing will take even the crappiest first draft and make it into something worthy of an A+. Use this step to also get the opinion of a friend, because they can often see mistakes you’ll miss.