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RESEARCH PAPER!
hi, so i have a research paper that is due in a few days on school nutrition and obesity, but i have NO clue how to write a research paper and ive tried looking it up on google and nothing has helped me. so basically, i was wondering if anybody had any examples of research papers or something i can look at?..dont worry i wont copy and paste them as my essay..i do my own work, but i just am confused on how to do this!
thanks!
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To be as simple as possible, a research paper should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.
In the introduction, you will want to introduce your "thesis" or your main arguement. It may be that "School lunches are encouraging obesity among students" or something of the like.
The body should be made up of arguments that support your thesis statement. One paragraph might contain statistics on the amount of students who eat school lunches and the relationship to how many obese students there are. You will have to do the research here to look for some numbers. You could probably just type "school nutrition and obesity" into google and find some articles. Depending on how long the paper has to be, you'll need to find a few points of argument to make the paper.
The conclusion will bring all of the arguements from the body into one paragraph and relate them to the thesis or main argument from the introduction. So for instance, "Since X, Y, and Z have occured, then school lunches are responsible for obesity among students."
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Looking at a bunch of research papers can be a bit confusing since one can get lost in the specific subject. Much easier is to understand what the main components are. Then one can always modify the structure a bit to fit one's own purpose. Essentially a research paper will be generally structured something like this:
Introduction: This is where you identify your main research question. This describes what you wish to investigate through your paper. It should be clear and well defined as the entire assignment depends upon it. The more specific this is the better the paper will be.
Methodology: This describes how you plan to obtain information and organise the analysis. This includes everything from sources of information to statistical analyses used to organise the data (if applicable).
It might prove easier to also divide your research question into sub categories. E.g. if your research question deals with an evaluation of the impact of nutritional values of lunches on obesity, your sub questions might be: What are the nutritional requirements for an average child?, How do school lunches impact on overall daily nutrition?, How have nutritional values of school lunches changed?, What effects have been noticed from these changes?, etc.
Basically these should all be steps along the way to answering your main question. This enables to you properly structure research data, and to have an easier time to arrive at conclusions.
Findings: The next step is to gather information. Look at your research question(s) and try to gather all the relevant facts and figures that might be relevant. What information you need should now be easier to determine if you have formulated a good set of goals.
Discussion: Here is where you combine the facts and figures in arguments. You can tie in your findings directly with the sub categories you outlined in the methodology and begin to answer the questions one by one. The discussion should leave you with a set of mini- conclusions based on your findings.
Conclusion: Here you tie in all the findings and mini- conclusions derived above, so as to answer your overall research question. Your focus now is to state how the trends/ findings/etc relate directly to the specific goal of the paper.
Any recommendations would follow here as well. This may be beyond the scope of your paper, but you may wish to arrive at a set of recommendations. These could include measures that must be taken to ensure proper nutrition (e.g. maximum saturated fat content in lunches, or availability of non processed foods, etc.). This all depends on how you phrased your research question.
When you have finished the paper, then go back and write an abstract (i.e. a short summary of the entire report, usually about half a page or so). Do this only when the report is complete, and then place it at the beginning of the paper (before the introduction).
Note: All actual examples I gave are straight off the top of my head.
That is more or less it. Good luck.
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Did your teacher give you an outline?
If not, make your own.
Example:
Topics you can pull from obesity
- Long term effects
- short term effects
- preventing/ending it
- how to stay healthy
Then write a paragraph about each of the things you researched with each topic as a paragraph.
Sorry if it doesnt make sense
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