CHAPTER 29 – Getting Started: From Planning Research to Evaluating Sources

This chapter outlines the logical steps to writing a good research paper. You should take care in selecting your thesis firstly. We should come up with an original thesis or take an aspect of someone's thesis and develop it. Our thesis is the most critical aspect of our research essay. In the body part, it's a marshalling of facts to support our argument. We should make sure we have found out in any academics have made similar arguments and acknowledge them in our essay, even if we did not draw directly from them. If they said things, which don't support our argument, say why these statements are either wrong or not applicable in the circumstances. In the conclusion part, typically we summarize our arguments. We can also end with an example or a quote, which sums up our arguments. As usual, a clearly-written, well organized essay. Top marks would go to an original thesis, which showed thorough research and good writing. If we have a tired old thesis, no matter how well we write the essay, our grades will be limited