Easy Writer "Research"

               In the "Research" section of the Easy Writer book, they talk a lot about how to prepare writing for a research paper. The first topic mentioned in the section is beginning the research process. First you narrow down your topic to your working thesis in which you will next begin the research process. The writer then wants to look for credible sources. To ensure that the source is credible, it's necessary that the source has proper credentials. For example an article should have an abstract, title, publisher or sponsor, author credentials, a publication date and works cited. This is important to check because if faulty information in used in a research paper, the entire paper can be seen as false. It is also important to make sure that the source is useful and relevant to your paper to increase its credibility. The accuracy will further enhance the paper.
               Other processes that are important when creating a research paper is the idea of taking notes and citing sources. When taking notes it is important write down only the relevant information and major points of the source. As well as notes, keeping a list of the sources used and how to access them will greatly ease the work of finding valuable sources. When citing it is important to give credit to authors when it is due. Quoting and citing the works is a crucial part of any paper. If incorrectly summarized or paraphrased, it is possible it can be seen as plagiarism which automatically gives no validity to the paper.