How To Write Research Papers Like a Professional
We've already written articles about essay writing, so let's consider research papers now. Research papers are longer than essays and require you to be good at working with facts. In this article, we will focus on approaches that have proven to be effective. We hope that our tips will help you create successful academic papers.
The Main Section
The main section of your research paper should provide some theoretical knowledge about relevant issues and highlight the most important aspects of your topic. To write this part, you should focus on analysis and reasoning. You need to analyze the data in the context of your subject, describe your arguments, and explain your position regarding the topic. In this section, you may also address other opinions and counterarguments to demonstrate your awareness and the depth of your research.
Given that you should present information in a well-structured and logically consistent way, it's important to use various subheadings. This way, you’ll be able to properly structurize your argumentation. You can also make your analysis easy to comprehend by using various charts and tables. Your analysis depends on the question that you should answer. For instance, you can analyze the reasons and the consequences, the general picture and specific details, the whole subject and its parts, or stable parameters and variables.
When writing your research paper, you should keep in mind that each paragraph should have one main idea and present relevant evidence. You can also illustrate the evidence with graphs or images. By limiting yourself to one key idea per paragraph, you’ll be able to create the right structure and stay focused, making your text easy to comprehend. Research papers enable you to use the passive voice sometimes. However, we recommend that you only do it if necessary. Even scientific writing shouldn’t be filled with the passive voice. For instance, you can use active verbs with non-living subjects.
Another important thing to keep in mind is that you should avoid repetition. Don’t use the same phrases over and over again because your paper will look boring. If you want to get a good grade, your research paper should be not only informative but also interesting to read. If you realize that making your paper informative and interesting at the same time seems almost impossible, you may consider delegating writing to professionals and ordering your research paper online.
Conclusion
The conclusion of a research paper should provide a brief summary of the content. Summarize the key points and make sure that your conclusion is meaningful. For example, you can provide a clear answer to the main question. Depending on the topic of your paper, you may consider the subject in a more general context, or consider the consequences of the issue that you’ve analyzed in the paper. Besides, you can suggest other relevant topics that require further research. In the conclusion section, you can also present your personal opinion if the evidence that you’ve used in the research paper supports it.
Here are the dos and don’ts that you should consider when writing a conclusion for your research paper.
Do
- Reinforce the key ideas, emphasize the most important facts, refer to something that you mentioned in the introduction. However, make sure not to re-write your introduction word for word.
- Not only summarize but also reflect on the meaning of your topic. For instance, you may consider the subject in the context of some relevant events, reflect on the background, or express expectations.
- Make sure that you understand the task. Quite often, you may be required to write a specific type of conclusion. When writing short papers, you may avoid unnecessary reiteration of the key ideas, while in longer papers, it might be necessary.
- Try to predict consequences or results, suggest solutions, or call for a certain action.
- Use thought-provoking questions, add impressive relevant quotes.
Don't
- Present completely new ideas. You should include all the necessary information in the main body.
- Focus on minor details that don't add meaning to your conclusion.
- Write your excuses. If you couldn't address some important aspects of the topic in your paper, you can mention them in the main body. Even in this case, however, you should stick with a confident tone.
- Deny the importance of arguments that you’ve mentioned before.
The conclusion of your paper is very important because it has a significant impact on the readers’ impression of it. Therefore, we recommend that you reflect on the material and analyze it carefully. If you realize that the results of your research made you change some of your opinions, there’s nothing wrong with rewriting some of your previous sections.
The conclusion should also be concise. Both the introduction and conclusion should be short compared to the main body. The conclusion, however, can be a little longer than the introduction. There are no strict rules, but we recommend that you don't make your conclusion longer than 12-15% of the total length of your paper. As for the introduction, try to keep it within 7-8% of the total length.
