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1. Introduction: You have a research
paper coming up and you're stuck
on where to start. My name is Audrey, the
founder of our money talks, a media company which
helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their
communication skills. One of the books published by the Armani talks company
is get to the point, a beginner's guide
to essay writing, critical thinking skills
and logical reasoning. In this class, you're
going to understand how to apply essay writing onto
your research paper. Throughout the class, you're
going to get a Dummies Guide into understanding how
to present an argument, how to properly
research in order to make a case for
your argument. How to outline, create,
edit, proofread. Alright, we're gonna be
covering a lot of topics. So let me not drag out
this introduction anymore. If you're ready to improve your research paper game and look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. What is a Research Paper?: Research paper is a paper that
presents a solid argument. Normally whenever you're
thinking about arguments, you may think of
something negative. Where you're over here arguing
with your baseball coach. You guys are fighting
back-and-forth. Think about the
situation real quick. Why are you guys fighting
in the first place? You, the baseball player, you have certain point
that is true to you. But your baseball coach, this person also has a
point that is true to them due to the conflict of interests and
argument is happening. Before getting down to the
nitty-gritty fundamentals, we'll see that
different human beings perceive reality in
a different way. That's because all of us have
a different experiences. And these different
experiences cause us to have different
perception maps. These perception maps,
or how we view reality. This is y. Two different individuals can
see the same exact thing. However, they're seeing
two different things. Their perception maps with this fundamental
understanding of arguments and how human
beings process information. This is what it becomes fun
to write research papers. We're not just writing
a research paper, so we can pass our class. That's a very weak
why we're writing research papers so we can understand our own
line of reasoning. See a lot of ideas. They sound good whenever
you're thinking about it and it's in your mind. But the minute that you try expressing that idea with words, that's when it becomes tricky. At times, it's a very daunting process
because you're like, whoa, my logic is
actually very faulty. And this is what
the research paper is going to help you understand. By doing the proper research, by creating the proper outline. And creating, you're
going to be able to present your argument in a logical way from one point to the next
point to the next point. In a way where there's not that many gaps in understanding.
Things like that. Whenever you're writing
a research paper, you are building a case
for your argument.
3. Choose a Topic: The first step in order to write a research paper is
to choose a topic. And at times there's
gonna be a professor or a person of authority
that's giving you your topic. Other times, you're
going to have a D at the freedom to
choose your own topic. What kind of topics should
you choose if you're in the latter category and
you have the freedom. That really depends upon you. But one of the advice that I can give is something that you are naturally passionate
about, very curious on. Or you want to know more about the more debt you have,
something like that. There's that emotional
state in regards to it. The more you're
going to be fueled in order to do the
research paper. Let's say you're one of
those kids that doesn't like the exams and
schools too much alike. It's overrated. It gets us focusing on
all the wrong things. I have a better way of changing the school system with
out the use of exams. This is something that you may be able to write
a research paper on. Because automatically there's
a level of, I feel it. This is not just a
logical case alone, it's something that your
subjective experience fields. So for the beginning, we need to choose a topic. And once we choose a topic, we can get over to
the next stage.
4. Reputable Sources: Now we need to do some research. Research is strategically taking in information with intent. So the average person
that's over here, I'm surfing the Internet when
their boss is not around. They're not researching,
or they're doing is they're just going
from tab to tab to tab. There's not much intent. It is mindless. Once you have a
research paper topic. Now you create a focal point
or you can be mindful. Where exactly should you
get your sources from? There's a variety of sources, but here are a few suggestions for you to get started off with. A one includes the Internet. You need to be very mindful in regards to the Internet
because some of the stuff is very valuable and
it can give you a crucial, important information, while
other stuff is pure junk. So this is one of
those things where you need to use
your own judgment. Another place that you
can research from our, from books throughout history, there has been a lot of books. I'm sure that I'm plenty of
those books are covering the topic that you
are writing on. Another resource is
a credible source. So let's say you're
over here really making the case for why exams
should be eliminated. You can interview
a lot of teachers, teachers who are partaking in the school system every day. And you can ask them, hey, what are your
thoughts on on exams? And you want to interview plenty of them because
now you have more data. And another source
could be yourself. Because whenever you're,
let's say you're one of those people that didn't
like exams for a long time. You thought you
were done, right? But once you graduated
from school, you realized that
you aren't dumb. It was simply that the exams
were imposing a lot of limitations into what
you viewed a smart, you need to be very careful when you're
referencing yourself, because this is when it's
very easy to get biased. So if you are going to
be referencing yourself, you want to at least
make a note like, Hey, this is a
personal experience. This is not a part
of any studies. Or let's say you don't even want to say
something like that. You don't want to make
a disclaimer like that. At least do your
best to be objective as possible and see if you can make a case for the
other side as well. Otherwise, it's going to
seem as though you're too biased and the
person that is consuming your research
paper is going to undermine the
logic of your paper. So there's plenty of different
sources and you will have to strategically
choose the source. That is correct for your paper.
5. Create an Outline: Once you've consumed
enough information, you need to create an outline. Now you may be like, well, how do I exactly know when I've consumed
enough information? Here's a little trick
that I like to give. You know, that you have consumed enough information when you
can ramble on the topic. If you cannot ramble
on the topic, the chances are you
don't know enough. What do I use this formula? Because what we want to do
is we want to know a lot. That's where the research
paper just flows out of us. And we often ramble about stuff
that we know a lot about. If you can't even ramble, if you're just already getting
gaps in understanding, then level up your
research game some more. Now, let's say you are
someone that's capable of rambling on the topic.
Create your outline. So what are some relevant points that you're going to bring up? What are the sub points
of the relevant points? What are the sub sub points
of the relevant points? If you're still sticking with the whole school exam example, you could start off
with the first point, I talking about the invention
of standardized exams. Take the research paper from
the very introductory phase. What exactly lead to the
exams in the first place? This always a thing.
You could break down the first block of your
research paper with that. Or you could talk
about why this topic is so important to you
and get creative with it. There's a lot of different
outlining methods. I cannot strictly guide
you with this one. You could go on online and find one of those
outline templates. Or you can just create something
that is useful for you. I'm a simple guy. I literally just like bullets and sub
bullets and that's it. So create an outline. And once you have the outline, we're ready to go
to the next step.
6. Create: Let me tell you something. Just like I said, that you
shouldn't begin writing the outline until you
can ramble on the topic. You shouldn't necessarily write the research paper
until you have a clean outline where it's detailed and you can follow
the logic strictly from here. There's a lot of
fiction authors that pretty much create
their entire outlines. They build their world. And then they say, the book writing part just
takes care of itself. And it's very similar with
writing a research paper. Once you have crystal clear
logic in your outline. This is one the
research paper pretty much just writes itself. Most individuals, or do it
in a very sub-optimal way. They began writing before
David know anything. I didn't really have an outline. And they're over here trying
to figure out their logic as they're writing and it
just becomes a headache. So once you have the outline
or write the content piece, and here's the mindset
that you want to have. You're just creating
a rough draft. You're not over here trying
to be perfect with grammar, punctuation, spelling,
any of that, you're literally just getting your ideas from
point a to point B and embrace sloppiness,
embrace imperfections. Because later on we
are going to turn that imperfection
into perfection.
7. Edit/Proofread: You've got your rough
draft. Congratulations. This is what I like to
call your big block. Now, you're going to chisel it away with editing
and proofreading. If you're one of those
individuals that was over here creating a very,
very rough draft. Then in the editing stage, there's gonna be a lot of red
lines that staring at you, which pretty much means
that you have a lot of misspellings or
fixed that first. Once you fix that,
and then you'll see surprisingly that a lot of
your writing is taken care of. It's just a little bit sloppy in terms of
certain word usages. And this is when after
you fixed the red lines, your second step of
iteration of editing, you're thinking about, okay, is this how I would really say at this point is a
little redundant. Let me remove this and let me
word it like this instead. This is your second wrap. Each iteration that
you're going through. Each time you're going
from a high entropy where there's a lot of chaos to
making it a low entropy. Or there's more beauty,
There's more elegance. As you're going through
the editing process. Eventually, you're
going to get to that stage where
you're proofreading. This is what I just like
to call the final touches. You're just making sure that
all your karmas are there. You put the appropriate
periods, quotations and such. And voila, you, my friend, you're done with your
research paper or are you?
8. Reference Section: A lot of research papers have a section called
references at the end. And the references are
pretty much when you put your sources at the
end of your paper. So not only do you
give proper credit, you also build the credibility
of your research paper. So there's different
ways to cite the reference section
as since this is a beginners guide to research papers, I'm not
going to cover that. You can Google that. But this side for, let's say college research
papers is often mandatory. But if you're doing
research papers, let's say for your business
or for your organization. This is not always mandatory. So just remember that depending on the context
of your research paper, a reference section may
or may not be smart.
9. Final Project: Congratulations for making
it to the end of the class. Now is the time for fun little final
project that will help you get in the entire
research paper groove. You're going to pick a topic
that you know a lot about. And you're going to create
an outline in regards to it. What argument exactly
are you making? Choose that topic, and then create the outline
however you see fit. The main thing that
you want to focus on in regards to the outline is that you want it to hold
some semblance of logic. If you are one of those
individuals that really wants to remove standardized
exams, you can just say, because I feel like it, you need to make a
case-by-case reason as to why we should remove
the exams are picked. That logic in respect
to your own topic. And once you have the outline, congratulations, and post it in the final project
section right down below. I look forward to
checking it out. And if you are feeling
very ambitious, you could even write that research paper in
your own free time. Just post the outline and the final project section
right down below. And thank you very
much for joining this beginner's class
on research papers. If you want to learn more
about the Armani talks brand, be sure to check out
our money talks.com, which has plenty of topics on subjects such as
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Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
