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sozomige

Jun 10, 2009

Research Papers / Your way of writing 10 or more pages research paper (univ or college level) [10]

As a student who will start my post secondary education this fall 2009, I am worrying on how I can manage to write 10 or more pages research paper. In high school the longest paper I wrote was less than 10 pages. I heard in univ/college students are ought to write 10 pages research paper or more.

English is not my first language. This is the reason why I am so worried about the level of English I will be in. I feel like I am not yet ready to grasp the English Level in university. This is one of the ways I think of to know what to do and expect in a University(Academic) Level of Education.

Can anyone give me an advice how to write multiple pages research paper in University(ACADEMIC) level. It would be better if you outline your steps of constructing your RESEARCH PAPER. Also, if you want, you can write your past experiences in univ/college. You can write any past experience related on writing/conducting research papers.

Here my own step-by-step way of creating a research paper

1. pick a topic from the list (if provided)
2. thesis (what i am going to write about)
3. gather sources related to the topic chosen (books, online, article, magazine etc)
4. read sources
5. write down important points from the source then SITE it (to avoid plagiarism)
6. review recorded important points (try to view it as a big picture) this is the time when I plan how my paper will look like (construction of the outline)

7. write intro, body, conclusion

This is the way to make a Research paper but I want know how others write their research paper. One of the way to improve my skill is to learn from YOU!

Have a good day everyone!

sozomige

Jun 12, 2009

Research Papers / Your way of writing 10 or more pages research paper (univ or college level) [10]

I have read all of the replies on this thread. I appreciate all of your time and effort you spent on this. I am sure I am not the only one who will benefit from this enlightenment advice you all shared but to all other students like me who are feeling obscure on their English skill for the forthcoming post secondary school year.

To sum up all the ideas in this thread so far, I learned that in order to write more pages or to make an essay longer is to have "mini-thesis" from the points(mostly/usually three main points) of the main thesis. I can also makes a complete essay from each point main point of the main thesis. The main idea here is to expand the outline by adding supporting ideas to each point of the main topic.

It is easy to add more ideas to the major points of the main thesis IF you already know the topic. Meaning a person can easily add many points they want to make the research paper longer. What IF the researcher does not know anything about the topic. Doing research is utterly stressful because it gets confusing as explore different kinds of view about the topic.

I just found out my weakness. Organization skill is what I should work on. My problem now is to know how to start writing those "mini-essay" that will support my main points of the thesis. If you have tons of sources in front of you, it just get so complex, you dont know where to begin.

How can someone produce a thesis and its major points if the person does not know anything. If the person starts to do his research, all the articles start to mix together. How can the person know what to write if all he has are different views of the topic. How can he construct an the basic outline to know what to research and where to begin.

That just gave me another reason why I should be scared of going to university. I am not scared academically but the English level is holding me back.

sozomige

Jun 15, 2009

Undergraduate / Skills Test Essay Seneca college (fall 2009) [6]

I took a skill test in Centennial College a year ago. The purpose of the test is to assess students who have been living in the Canada for less than 3-4 years. Students will be given an ENGLISH assessment test which will measure the strength and the level of ENGLISH of the potential student. The result will be given once the student is done. The sole purpose of the skill test is to determine which level of ENGLISH they will put you in either ESL or regular stream.