Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Interview on Research papers
For my assignment I interviewed James, he is an upperclassmen here at UWG majoring in biology. He told me that he has had to do numerous research papers in his college career. He also told me that professors don't really care about how much information you have but they care more about how it relates to your topic and that you cite it correctly. Later he stated that the most important thing when doing a research paper is citing where you get your information from, because if you do not cite it can be looked at by the teacher as made up material. His most recent research paper was on the body which ironic relates to his major. He told me that it took him almost about a month just to research and do the outline. After that the paper was very easy to write and get done. I personally have had to do a research paper since I have been attending UWG and I haven't taking that much time to do the research. So next time I will take into consideration James' experience and hopefully that will make my paper even better.
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That is totally true. My 12th grade lit teacher told us the same exact thing. I also believe doing the research is the most important part of a project or research paper. Although it is quite difficult to finish to persist through the research phase it is advantageous in the latter phases of the research paper process.
ReplyDeleteI agree a lot of people right tons of information that is useless and just try to make their paper look long but professors only want information that actually contributes to the paper. I use to do that a lot until I started receiving bad grades. I also agree citations are really important to cause there is so many websites to get information from these days.
ReplyDeleteWhat kinds of sources did he use? Where did he look to find his information?
ReplyDeleteAnd what do you mean profs don't care how much information you have? You do need to have a clear research question, and then develop a clear thesis statement, and stay on topic -- throwing in all kinds of unrelated information won't help you. But you do have to have good information on your specific topic, right?