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How To Start A Research Paper

Updated: Oct 11, 2019




Research is an intimidating word.

Writing a research paper is an important milestone in the career of any student or professional. 


Most of the student write it for first time in university but some students have an idea of research and how to write it in college term paper.



What is a Research

Research is a piece of academic document that is based on the author’s original research that can be based on a particular topic.


It contains the author’s analysis, research methodology and interpretation of outcomes of research in a clear way. 


You can find millions of articles online about structuring your research paper. In this article, we assume that you already know the basic structure of writing a paper.


Maintaining accuracy and quality is vital for any research paper. Here we are sharing a few tips with you that will help you enhance and maintain the quality. 



What to Write?

Selecting a research paper topic is also required a great effort as better the research is, better are the grades.


So You may ask from your professor/ supervisor or take help form internet for best suitable research paper topics which suits your interest and you can write effective research paper to score good grades in university.


Heading are important!

Headings are the face of your paper. Reader sees them first, before reading the actual content.

Writing impressive heading will impress the reader. But this is the trickiest part. In this article, we are giving tips to write an impactful heading for your research paper.


If your heading starts with the question, then make sure that other heading from the same level also start with questions, i.e., How, What, where, etc.


Use self-explanatory phrase headings. Make them purpose-specific.


Don’t make “lone” headings. Making heading that exists by itself without any other similar type of heading in the same section, ruins the whole impact of paper.


Use a similar type of headings in the same section. i.e., if headings start with a question in section one, then all heading in the same section should be based on questions.


Formatting Style Of Research Paper


If you are working hard in searching your research paper materiel with investing lot of time but if you are not able to write it in better format, all the effort is useless.

Because in university their is a proper format of writing research paper.


Most of the research paper has requirement to write research paper in turabian style paper.Professors ask students to write turabian style paper for their graduate paper. Students are not familiar with this style and most of the time they learn the basics of turabian style paper from internet.

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