What is the best way to approach a lengthy research paper?

Answer 1

If you're having difficulties with motivation, I recommend chopping the research paper into smaller chunks. By this, I mean giving yourself a detailed step-by-step to-do list so you can tackle each step one a time. This will make the task seem much less daunting.

Here's an example of how you can do this. For the sake of this example, let's say you're writing a paper on how to tie your shoes.

Goal: write a paper on how to tie your shoes

Needed to complete goal: Understand how to tie shoes, find resources on how to tie shoes, personal anecdotes on tying shoes, proofread, edit.

Step 1: Get a website or paper ready to write down notes and sources

Step 2: Find sources on how to tie your shoes effectively, written by shoe tying experts.

Step 3: Write down how these sources have helped you tie your own shoes.

Step 4: Write an outline

Step 5: Fill in the outline based on the information you already have

Step 6: Create a works-cited page

And so on...

Answer 2

Hello,

The best way to approach a research paper is to:

*Decide which topic you want to research (or if you are assigned a research topic up front).

*Peruse and then follow the research paper’s assignment guidelines themselves to help you stay on track all throughout the research and writing processes from beginning to end.

*Create an outline for yourself to help you organize the subtopics of the main research topic itself on paper as you research, take notes, and then write all the while.

*Write multiple drafts of your research paper when you have gathered all the required, topically correlative information for it.

*Edit for content; proofread for spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization within your sentence structure and paragraph organization.

*Polish and submit!

Good luck!