73631Amy's project learning homework

1. What is a research paper? 

A research paper is not like an essay. For example, an essay can write anything you want to write, but a research paper you should make sure that your papers is truth. So you need to do research to let reader believe that your research is true. You may gather information from book, internet, interview someone, etc. And you have to check your information with no errors, so you need to look over the data that you had. In order to make your research more clear and easy to understand, you need to synthesize all your information into one paper.
2. What elements does it contain?

There are six parts in this project learning. The first part is to introduction the main idea of this project. The second is to tell us their motivation why they want to research this. The third data analysis, if you don’t have a statistic, people won’t believe you. You need to show them some dates, and they will convince by numbers. And then you need to sum up your research. So you need to have a conclusion. It’s the most important part, you spent one year to get this result. After your project finished, you should put your references on your project. It’s important to show us where your information comes from. Of cause you can put some appendixes on the bottom of the project.
3. What basic knowledge or skill do you need when writing it?

In order to have more background about this project, we need to read a lot of articles. In this project, they use many dates to tell us whether student should wear uniform. They even interview a student from Canada. Then they research the student whether they want to wear uniform which design by themselves. They give reader a lot of numbers and pie charts to clearly convince us. It’s a good idea to let people understand their project.