Enrichment

Five Secret Rules:

What Your Professors Don't Tell You About Research Papers

If you want a good grade on your paper—this is what you’ve got to do:

  1. Come up with an interesting question: Give me something different to read.

  2. Find and use good sources: Try to use some books and articles that I know and love.

  3. Understand what you read: Read it more than once—learn some new vocabulary.

  4. Learn and think something new. If you’re not learning you’re wasting your time and mine.

  5. Present what you learned in a professional manner: Sound like and look like a scholar, but please don’t bore me.