Research 101

I think conducting research papers is an important concept because we need to know how to acquire information and develop it into a paper to help support an argument. I remember writing research papers before, but never thought about how beneficial there were for my future. When we don't know something about a topic or have a question nobody can answer, we 'google' it. Google is a main source for research. However, I never used scholarly peer-reviewed articles as my research information. The biggest challenge with scholarly sources is finding a book or article pertaining to your specific topic. I am changing my thesis and now I might need to find another source, which is the most difficult part of the research paper. Relating to the annotated bibliography, I had to do that before in high school and I like it. I think it helps a lot with understanding your source and what the source is going to provide for your paper.

The most important concept I can take away from writing a research paper is understanding what you're researching and what the argument of the scholarly source you use is expressing. Also understanding the information given to you from each scholarly article or book. Using part of a book as one of my sources, I do not have time to read the whole book. Instead I am using only a chapter of the book to help support my argument because I want to use this source. It as information that would be essential to my research paper. I like writing research papers because I think it helps a lot to have evidence from others sources to help support your argument or topic. It is a difficult task to be able to write a research paper correctly and have the right information, but it will help for the future; especially when having to write nursing papers.