What do you need to have in a research paper?

I don't know how to write a research paper, can someone help me by telling the things that i need to put on it,

What do you need to have in a research paper?
Well, first you have to search and get enough information not to be lost in the middle of the paper. Search until you don't have any doubts about what you're working on. And please, don't forget to write down every SINGLE site that you're going to quote in the paper.


Then, you'll need an outline. In an outline, you have to have every paragraph you're going to write. But this one is a different outline. In this one you'll need only the quotes for each paragraph, your thesis, and the main sentences of each paragraph . When I wrote my research paper to my 10th grade English class, my teacher taught how to make some note cards for each quote.. In these note cards, you are going to name them and decide which paragraph they are going to be in. Of course, you are also going to write on them who quoted it and where it is (for example, on the internet on this website: "blablabla".)


With those note cards, you will lay them down on your living room floor and write your paper in your mind. Your outline will help you analyze where the note cards on the floor are going to go. So then, you just switch them around, as you'd like them to be.


After the hard work, you just sit down and write, and it is not going to take that long because by the time you made the note cards and the outline you should have all your paper memorized.


Of course, there are some little big things. As the title, the work cited (your teacher should help you with this one), the maximum number of pages (if there's any), and don't ever forget to introduce your quotes and cite them at the end of the sentence. The rest is like a normal paper, which I guess you already know how to write.


Don't be ashamed to ask for help when you need it. And Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread, Proofread... until you get sick of it... unfortunately.


Good Luck! =)
Reply:You need to document your sources in a bibliography and include it at the end of your paper. Also, when writing your paper, you must sight the source you are refering to.





also, your opening paragraph must cover the points you wish to cover in your paper. Kind of like a laundry list only in sentence form and why you are coving it and an end statement.