Research

We all have an assignment one day that requires us to do a little research. The first thing you have to is visualize your what you are researching. You can look at this, as if it were an ice burg, small on top, but having a large mass beneath the surface. There may be a small amount of material with the topic of what your research paper will be about, but once you dive into the books you will find a large amount of information. If you are having trouble finding material to research, try developing different search terms. Make these terms more sophisticated or "scholarly" to pinpoint exactly what your topic is about. Also, you have to separate your primary sources from your primary sources. A majority of the information and what you write the paper about should make use of the primary sources and the secondary sources should be used as reinforcement to the argument you are making. Primary sources should include government spreadsheets all the way to rare books. A secondary source could very well be a news article that just so happens to be the same subject as the research paper. These sources need to be evaluated very carefully to gather information. Field research is also a good source of information and can also be included into the paper. Finally these sources need to be categorized into a bibliography to finalize everything and this also cites the sources that were used in the writing process.
                                              -Cody