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Have
you ever noticed that it is almost impossible to be grammatically correct when
writing an English paper? Whether you’re writing for college or high school,
each instructor seems to teach a different thing. By narrowing down your
writing to the important guidelines, it can be ensured you will write a paper
to the best of your academic ability. The complexity of college writing is much
stricter compared to the writing you will experience in your high school
career. In this post, we will explain to you what you need to write a college
level paper and how to do it.
Helpful Hints
The
first thing you need to have in order to write a paper successfully at the
college level is a solid debatable research topic. Your topic should be easily
arguable and easily defendable on the facts that you provide throughout the
body of your paper. Be sure to get the opinion of your professor so your topic
is broad enough to cover the assignment given. Your topic should be interesting
enough to grab your audience’s attention and keep them interested in what
you’re saying, but be sure not to slam them with facts that you acquire in the
research that you or your group does.
During
your research of the topic, be sure to cite all informational sources you
receive. You can cite your sources using noodletools.com, which is recommended
through the DACC rhetoric programs. It is important to credit the facts and
ideas you receive to the original authors so that plagiarism is not a factor in
your paper. Plagiarism can be one of the worst charges ever put against you at
the college level. It can result in serious academic penalty or even expulsion.
The
format of your paper is just as important as any other part of the assignment.
Depending on what style you are assigned, usually MLA or APA based on your
instructors preference, there are different guidelines to the outlook of your
paper. For instance, MLA is always double spaced, with one inch margins all
around your paper. The header in MLA is different from APA which requires a
cover page. All papers generally require a size of 12 fonts using either Times
New Roman or Calibri.
The
first thing you need in a well written paper is a thesis statement. Your thesis
should be a well-argued statement or a question that you will answer throughout
your paper. A thesis is the most important because it outlines your paper on
what you feel about the topic.
The
body of your paper is all of the facts, opinions and quotes that you put into
your paper and defend your thesis. The main body needs to answer your thesis
question as well as provide facts and opinions based on the information and
research you acquired. It is important to defend the side you have taken in
your body to make your paper well rounded and informative but also
argumentable. It would be highly advised to have someone proofread your paper
to make sure you did not make any silly mistakes that could lower your grade.
The
conclusion sums up your entire paper by repeating what you have already said
and explaining one last time how your side of the argument is correct, and how
the opposing side is incorrect. It should bring your paper to a halt and answer
your thesis indefinitely.
The
citations of your paper are just about the most important part of the paper. If
done correctly it shows you have done your research well and will not be
charged with plagiarism and will not be kicked out of school. Without good
cited sources, your paper is nothing, it cannot be trusted and may not be
believed. As we mentioned before, you can use noodletools.com to cite your
sources in an easy, fast way and we strongly recommend it.
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