1. Writing the Research Paper

2. Tips for Writing the Paper
Use the thesis/purpose statement to establish the direction of your paper.
Provide evidence of support with proper documentation.
Reaffirm your thesis/purpose statement in the conclusion.
Offer a plan of action.
Be sure the final paragraph/sentence of your paper brings the paper to closure.
Try to begin or end your paper with your own ideas.
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3. Writing the Research Paper
NOTE:
Verb tense is an indicator that distinguishers papers. . .[The] APA style requires you to use past tense or present perfect tense (“Jeffries stipulated” or “the work of Mills and Maguire has demonstrated”). The APA style does require present tense when you discuss the results (e.g. “the results confirm” or “the study indicates”) and when you mention established knowledge (e.g. “the therapy offers some hope” or “salt contributes to hypertension”).

4. Example of APA Style
The scholarly issue at work here is the – (present tense) construction of reality. Cohen, Adoni, and Bantz (2002) (past tense )
labeled the construction a social process “in which human beings act both as the creators and products of the social world” (p. 34). These writers have identified (present perfect) three categories.
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5. Writing the Research Paper Before writing the first draft of your paper, develop a final outline. Also, you should be able to identify your thesis/purpose statement.

6. The outline will help you to organize the ideas of the paper.

7. It is important to incorporate quotes and paraphrases correctly
It is important to incorporate quotes and paraphrases correctly. Quotes and paraphrases will help to support your ideas. Analyze each quote and paraphrase carefully. Quotes and paraphrases should not simply be fillers in the paper. They serve to support the ideas developed in the paper.

8. The APA style uses the following conventions for in-text citation
The APA style uses the following conventions for in-text citation. Cites last names only. Cites the year, within parenthesis, immediately after the name of the author. Include only the year in the text citation even if the reference includes a month. Cites page numbers with a direct quotation but not with a paraphrase. Uses “p.” or “pp.” before numbers. From Writing Research Papers

9. Example: Nguyen (2006) has advanced the idea of “soft mathematics,” which is the practice of “applying mathematics to study people’s behavior” (p.4).

10. Example: Concern in the popular press focus on cohabitation as a threat to the institution of marriage. “What has emerged is a dramatic discordance between the expectations and experiences of family time” (Daly, 2001, p. 283). We must look to the future, rather than idealizing the past, to find workable family values and structures for the next century.

11. Exercise: Judge the sentences below for their exactness in their citation, paraphrase, or quotation.

12. William T. Sherman called the Mississippi River “The spinal column of America.” Like most Federal strategists, he was convinced that the Confederacy would die a quick death if the north could seize control of the river and cut off the Old South from its Western allies. When General U.S. Grant set out to do the job, he hardly suspected that it would take him eight months. From Bruce Cotton. The Civil War. New York: Houghton Mifflin,

13. Judge the sentences for their exactness in their citation, paraphrase, or quotation Paraphrase: Concerns in the popular press focus on cohabitation as a threat to the institution of marriage. “What has emerged is a dramatic discordance between the expectations and experiences of family time” (Daly).

14. Correct the paragraph below. It is a long quote
Correct the paragraph below. It is a long quote. Graham (1996) has argued; “Freud and his psychoanalytic descendants are no doubt correct in their assessment that the search for ideal love- for that one perfect soul-mate- is the futile wish of not-fully- developed selves. But is also seems true that the longing for a profound, all-consuming erotic connection...is our very writing.”

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