Erika Eby - The High School Students Guide to Writing A Great Research Paper: 101 Easy Tips & Tricks to Make Your Work Stand Out

The High School Students Guide to Writing A Great Research Paper

101 Easy Tips & Tricks to Make Your Work Stand Out

By Erika Eby

The High School Students Guide to Writing A Great Research Paper: 101 Easy Tips & Tricks to Make Your Work Stand Out

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Eby, Erika, 1988

The high school student's guide to writing a great research paper : 101 easy tips & tricks to make your work stand out / Erika Eby.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60138-604-5 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-60138-604-4 (alk. paper) 1. English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary) 2. Report writing--Study and teaching (Secondary) 3. Research--Methodology--Study and teaching (Secondary) I. Title.

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Introduction

Let me set the scene for you: It is getting late on Sunday night, and you should be in bed. You have school early the next morning. You know you should have started your research paper sooner, but you were floundering and not sure what to do. There were also community events, friend and family obligations, extracurricular activities, and other homework to occupy your time all weekend.

Now, here you sit, staring at an intimidatingly empty white word document waiting for you to fill it. The cursor is pulsing. The clock is ticking. And you are panicking. Sound familiar?

This is a scenario that every high school student faces at some point. I know it happened to me more than once during my high school career. Add in technical difficulties and stress from hormones, friends, and sports, and you have a tempest of trouble brewing. Stress, anxiety, and writers block all are soon to follow. Its easy to convince yourself that writing a paper should be a piece of cake, but according to the National Center for Education Statistics, four out of five students are not proficient writers.

If you need inspiration and motivation for writing your next paper, this book can be the catalyst you need to get started. It can also be the helping hand you need to walk you through the process of putting together a fresh, original paper that is so loaded with extensive vocabulary, smooth transitions, and concise details that teachers wont want to lay a red pen on it.

I wrote my share of last-minute papers in high school. Sometimes I would be truly inspired and manage to throw together something that would impress teachers. More often, I would flounder around at my desk for a few hours before throwing something together out of desperation. For that reason, I have tried to make this the book that I wish I would have had in high school. Not a dry rundown of writing procedures and grammar lessons (though there will be some grammar covered, so get your groans out of the way now), but a useful guide with the modern high school student in mind.