Shamus Bartmess

V., Thomas, et al. “Writing a Research Article: Advice to Beginners.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 1 June 2004, academic.oup.com/intqhc/article/16/3/191/1814554.

This article would serve the class well because it is all about writing a research paper for beginners. It goes through and lays down all the issues you may come in contact with, while also solving those. In effect, creating its own research paper whilst still talking about how to write a research paper. It starts out talking about the aspects of which the paper should touch on. It also talks about three ideas which make the research paper, a research paper and not something else entirely. These are: “specificity… originality…. General relevance to a broad scientific community” (Thomas). This is good and all but the article goes into even greater detail. It gets into how the paper should be structured. It states that the structure should be, “the sequence of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (sometimes abbreviated as IMRAD).” (Thomas). It also tells how the author should format the beginning of the paper, and the body of the paragraph. It does this for every paragraph in the paper. It provides a table which makes it easy to follow when setting up the paper and how to set it up. Almost, cheating because it simplifies the process so much, but would make the process easy to understand for a beginner. It also provides a list of common mistakes that people make when writing a research paper. This should help the author to not make these mistakes. All in all, this is a very good source which should be used by teachers and students because it makes the process of writing a research paper so much easier. It also is produced by Oxford University which is something to be noted. Oxford is one of the oldest and most recognized schools in the world; making this article trustworthy.

Tahvon Davis

Derntl, Micheal. “Basics of Research Paper Writing and Publishing.” RWTH Aachen University, swsu.ru/sbornik-statey/pdf/paperwriting.pdf. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.

It is my opinion that the following resource would be a beneficial writing guide for the children at the High School. The article is by Michael Derntl a gentleman from a German university RWTH Aachen University. He was a senior staff member for the Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) and is the author of Basics of Research Paper Writing and Publishing. I believe that this article is beneficial to our lesson and to the students because it covers the fundamentals of research paper writing which include structuring, thesis’ and conclusions. He helps aid the reader in writing with visual representations of how a thorough work should be written and provides detailed explanations of why his methods are imperative when writing a strong research paper. The article also covers the editorial process and the steps that should be taken before submitting a final paper. His work fits our needs in my opinion because it addresses one of the more difficult concepts when writing. The concept that I feel should be stressed is the importance of narrowing down a topic to encompass a specific exigence that belongs to a larger category. This fact is shown by Derntl when he says, “The introduction leads the reader from general motivations and a broad subject to a particular research question…” (Page 107) The article draws references from many scholarly sources that study and evaluate the most efficient ways of writing. Due to it’s relevance, I think that this work will create an excellent base for our students and our lesson plan along with the article mentioned by my partner above.

Works Cited:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWTH_Aachen_University

http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/staff/derntl