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Student Learning Center 1
Research Paper
Writing Process

Research Paper
Writing Process
1. Assignment Clarification
2. Time Management
3. Topic Selection
4. Topic Brainstorm
5. Library Visit
6. Locate/Select Sources
7. Survey Sources
8. Topic Focus
9. Read Articles
10. Preliminary Thesis
11. Outline
12. Draft Paper
13. Revise Paper
14. Sources of Help

Research Paper
Writing Process
The purpose of this workshop is to identify
and examine the components essential to
planning and executing college-level
research writing assignments.

Research Paper
Writing Process
At the end of this workshop, students will be able
to :
1. Identify and conceptualize the essential steps in
the research paper writing process;
2. Access valuable campus resources to help at
various stages of the writing process;
3. Use time management strategies to plan for the
successful and timely completion of a research
paper project.

Research Paper
Writing Process
1. Prewriting
2. Writing
3. Post-writing

Assignment Clarification
1. Read the assignment sheet carefully.
2. Underline directional statements: define,
identify, analyze, argue, etc.
3. Underline due dates.
4. Identify evaluation criteria.
5. Ask questions.

Time Management
1. Write down all due dates.
2. Break down the research process into
steps.
3. Assign a due date for each step.
4. Make weekly and daily priority lists.

Topic Selection
1. Previous knowledge
2. Course content
3. Personal or professional experience/interests

Topic Selection
1. Ask questions: who, what, where, when, why
What is it similar to or different from; what are
the causes; what are the consequences; what is
the essential function; what are the definitions;
what is the history; what is the present status;
what case can be made for or against it; how did
it happen; why did it happen; what is my
personal reaction to it?
2. Identify subtopics

Brainstorming Strategies
1. List
2. Map
3. Freewrite

Library Visit
1. Browse the Drake Memorial Library
website.
2. Tour the library.
3. Meet with a reference librarian.
4. Learn the difference between scholarly
journals and other periodicals.
5. Locate sources.

Survey Sources
1. Read abstracts, headings and subheadings.
2. Make note of charts, statistics, graphs.
3. Read the reference lists.
4. Read introductory and summary paragraphs.
5. Skim body.

Topic Focus
Go back to your original subject and focus it
further based upon the information you gleaned
during the text survey activities.

Read
Read once-Read write!
Take notes as you read: Develop a system of
underlining, marking, and/or paraphrasing in
the margins that is meaningful to you.

Discovering a Preliminary Thesis
Form a thesis statement or question that will
guide the rest of your research and writing.
Focused Topic + Assertion=Thesis

1. Topic: Environmental issue connected to global warming
2. Focused Topic: coal fires
3. Thesis Question: How prevalent are coal fires? In what ways do coal
fires contribute to global warming? What proof is there that coal fires
in fact contribute to global warming?
4. Thesis Statement: “Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal
fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global
warming (Hacker, 2007, p. 10).”
Source
Hacker, Diana. (2007). A writer’s reference 6th
edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

1. Topic: Technology and consumerism
2. Focused Topic: the way television impacted consumerism within the
nuclear family from the mid 50’s to the early 60’s
3. Thesis Question: How did television target nuclear families and promote
specific consumer habits and values?
4. Thesis Statement: Television programs and advertisements during the
1950’s promoted consumer habits that promised to support domestic
happiness within the nuclear family.

Thesis Statement Examples
“ Although companies often have legitimate concerns that lead them to monitor employees’
Internet usage—from expensive security breaches to reduced productivity—the benefits of
electronic surveillance are outweighed by its costs to employees’ privacy and autonomy”
(Hacker, 2007, p. 12).
“Much maligned and the subject of unwarranted fears, most bats are harmless and highly
beneficial” (Hacker, 2007, p.10).
“ Understanding the limitations of medical treatments for children highlights the complexity
of the childhood obesity problem in the United States and underscores the need for
physicians, advocacy groups, and policymakers to search for other solutions” (Hacker, 2007, p.
453).
“Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water,
and add to global warming” (Hacker, 2007, p. 10).
Source
Hacker, Diana. (2007). A writer’s reference 6th
edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Outline
1. Make a list of the main points. These points
will form the organizational pattern of your
paper.
2. Make special note of concepts from your
sources that you wish to paraphrase in your
text.
3. Draft an outline, moving from main ideas to
details.
4. Revise thesis as needed.

Thesis: Television programs and advertisements during the 1950’s promoted consumer habits
that promised to support domestic happiness while strictly defining gender roles within
the nuclear family.
I. Introduction: Background and stats. on television viewing habits as well as numbers
of televisions purchased. Lead to thesis.
II. Point #1: Who: The Nuclear Family—who & what?
A. Members
B. Gender Roles
1. Male adults and children
2. Female adults and children
C. Values
1. Home
2. Convenience
3. Prosperity
III. Point #2: Television Shows--Specific Examples
A. Gender Roles & Expectations
B. Family Values
1. Home
2. Prosperity
3. Ideal Consumer Habits that help maintain status quo regarding gender
IV. Commercials: Specific Examples
A. Gender Roles
B. Promoting Consumer Patterns=happiness
V. Conclusions
Smith (2001)
Martin (2000)
Gonzalez (1999)
Williams (2000)
Martin (2000)
Cole (1966)
Bishop and Marx
(2006)
Smith (2001)

Draft
1. Begin to write in chunks of text defined by the
parameters of each main point.
2. Continuously refer to the thesis in order to stay
on track. Use key terms from the thesis to
thread each section together.
3. Integrate information from sources as you draft,
and include parenthetical citations.
4. Move from point to point rather than from
author to author.

Integrating Sources
Research papers demand abundant reference to
professional sources. That is, your research paper
will be generously populated with the voices of
the published experts. Your job is to manage those
voices, to synthesize them, to use them to
substantiate your claim.

Integrating Sources
Use a variety of lead-ins to introduce concepts or findings from
researchers:
1. According to Smith (2001), the presence of a television set in the home
even changed eating habits; frozen TV dinners, TV trays, and TV
tables altered the physical and social contexts of family meals.
2. By the early 1960’s, “90 percent of all households had at least one television set”
(Bishop & Marx, 2006, p. 2).
3. Television programs and commercials reinforced rigid gender roles
and promised consumers material wealth if they could fit the roles.
One social critic from the era remarked that “television certainly nurtured
both consumerism and conformity” (Cole, 1966, p. 24).

Revision Checklist
1. Reread the assignment sheet.
2. Underline your thesis.
3. Read aloud.
4. Label the topic of each paragraph in the margin.
5. Revise main ideas; consider clarity and
relevance.

Revision Checklist
6. Revise details; consider clarity and relevance.
7. Check for cohesion.
8. Check documentation format.
9. Check grammar, punctuation, word choice,
spelling.

Sources of Help
1. Professors
2. Librarians
3. Writing Tutors
4. Content Tutors
5. Models of Successful Research Papers

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