New things learned from The Curious Researcher

As we all knows, researching is one most essential parts in writing, for many papers, we need to find resources and facts to make supports in the arguments. Moreover, how to make outlines and quotes are also important. By reading the chapters from two to four from the book The Curious Researcher, it mainly talks about how you should prepare for the essay outline, set up quotations and how to write the first draft correctly. 

To start a research paper, the first thing is to state your thesis of the topic, and then by doing brainstorming, questioning yourself to come up with several points. Moreover, the second step is to do the research like interview, survey, Note-taking from books. However, there are some issues about how to avoid plagiarism. Firstly, copy words directly from the source to be part of your own work is the most seriously trouble in the college. You should always write work citation when you finish your paper. Also, there are two different methods that you can use for quotation marks: direct quotations and indirect quotations. Direct quotations means to involve other person’s exact words into your own writing. For indirect quotations, you should paraphrase or summarize the words from the source. In this case, it is not necessary to use quotation marks. However, both quotations need to include the proper citation. Moreover, when writing the body paragraphs, provide examples is the most beneficial way to state and prove the thesis. 

To sum up, people should always avoid the plagiarism, learn how to use the direct quotations and indirect quotation. Also, we should make sure we have in-text citation and bibliography when we write a formal research paper. Be sure to provide examples to briefly explain the paper, so that the paper have enough evidences to make it professional.