Process Involved in Producing a High Quality Research Paper

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Writing a high-quality research paper is a thorough process that involves various stages. The most significant thing that a person starts by doing is to read the instructions carefully. The researcher must understand the guidelines well before starting to write anything. Besides, it becomes easy to develop a research question, thesis statement, hypothesis, or purpose statement. The purpose of this paper is to discuss what it takes to produce a high-quality research paper.
After understanding the primary topic of the research paper, the researcher should come up with an outline and search for credible scholarly sources. Specifically, an outline is a framework or blueprint that helps a person to organize the ideas that will be discussed in the paper (Wee & Banister, 2016). Without it, a researcher might omit crucial points. When developing an outline, it is essential to search for reliable academic sources that align with the topic of discussion. At this point, a researcher uses the research question or thesis statement to search for the most appropriate articles from scholarly databases, such as ERIC, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and Google Scholar. Indeed, selecting the right and credible sources ensure that an individual gives accurate information that cannot mislead the reader. Consequently, coming up with a good outline and searching for the most appropriate sources is the beginning of producing a high-quality research paper.
The process of searching for the right and reliable academic sources is not easy and requires reviewing numerous articles, journals, magazines, and websites to ensure that one gets the best. Besides, when using websites, one should avoid blogs and encyclopedias. The best sources are from renowned magazines, such as The New York Times, and websites with .edu, .org, and .gov, such as the Homeland Security Department and the Wor...