Tips to Writing a Research Paper

  • Introduction: Introduce the theme with vivid and precise language and a provable thesis.
  • Use ample evidence in developmental paragraphs. Strategies for embedding evidence are: food-in, sneak in and full colon). Blend your own ideas and the source materials and go beyond the obvious.
  • Rather than talking in circles, transition between words and paragraphs present.
  • Use crafts such as imagery, the major three, semi-colon, one sentence word, parenthesis, sensory details, pairs of action, figurative language.
  • Conclusion: wrap up main points, return to earlier imagery or to the issue one final time using fresh powerful language. 
  • Use MLA format and add a Works Cited page. 

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