Like any other major undertaking, research papers require extensive planning. This section provides you with both a teachers’ guide and a students’ guide so that you don’t miss any of the steps.
A word of advice: Check out the Nonfiction Reading Strategies section in READING before you dive into this project. The biggest mistake we make when teaching the research paper is assuming that students know how to process what they read in the course of doing research. Not to state the obvious, but it’s hard to write about something that you just plain don’t understand.
Here are some additional helpful research-oriented Websites, which in turn contain links to other useful sites (Many thanks to Mitch Brenner at KIPP-Infinity for these leads!):
For additional student writing models and guides on how to judge sources, check out Write Source.
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