writing+tips

Tips for writing the research paper
(page numbers refer to the //BPHdbk// except when indicated otherwise)

-- Go visit a writing tutor!

-- Create a cmap (32) and a working outline (39) of your paper and continue to update it as you write

-- Starting in the Middle Many writers skip the introduction on the rough draft and get right into the body of the paper, believing that they are in a better position to draft the introduction later--when they know exactly what they are introducing. If you believe that you must begin at the beginning and work systematically all the way through, then do that. Whichever approach you take (and neither one is inherently preferable), remember that this is only a rough draft. Nothing at this stage is final. -- Rosen and Behrens (//Allyn & Bacon Hdbk//)