Writing a Research Paper

Caleb had to write a research paper this past quarter. The title of his paper is The Legacy of Ancient Greece. We were a little off in our progress but here are the steps that we went through:

• Pick a topic
• Conduct research- write notes on notecards or use an app for notetaking
• Form your thesis statement
• Write your outline
• Plug your research into your outline
• Write your paper
• introduction
• hook
• background
• thesis statement
• body papragraphs
• topic sentence
• detail sentences
• clincher- (in this case, it was considering modern implications)
• Conclusion
• restate thesis
• summarize findings 
• end with one important additional thought
• Edit
• Re-Write- adding title page, abstract and bibliography (noodlebib is an online citation creator- awesome.) 

We used APA formatting and the Purdue OWL site is a great writing resource.