Research Paper Guideline Summer 2022
Dear students
Research paper is an important element of semester activities at higher education level. It is a wonderful exercise for students to learn how to develop research questions, how to address them, how to use material and how to refer it. As we have decided in the class that research paper would be included in the evaluation, following are the complete steps from start to end, that will help you accomplishing this task:
Research paper specifications:
1. Size 2000 to 2500 words
2. File format: MS Word
3. Upload: Turnitin upload in Course shell
4. Uploading deadline: Before the date of final Exam
5. My supervision: As it would be a guided research, I ensure my availability on every Tuesday from 10am to 12noon and 2pm to 8pm. Or you can email me for any quick query.
6. Components of Research Paper:
a) Main title along with subtitle, if any, with your name and UCW student ID number on the Title page
b) One page abstract; it contains research questions, data, methodology and findings briefly
c) Research questions should be stipulated clearly
d) Literature Review: It describes the literature/data you have used for this paper
e) Interpretation of literature and data
f) Findings
g) References and Bibliography in APA style. Minimum 15 References are must.
Step 1: How can you find the topic of Research?
Answer: You can choose any topic from different themes of the course we have already done and we will do in next four weeks. Topic should be short and clear and must have available literature. When you select the topic, send it to me for approval along with the list of available literature. After the approval you should start reading, note taking, analyzing and presented in a well composed manner.
Step 2: Where would you access to the literature/data
Answer: There are so many academic search engines. Please avoid Wikipedia. First you can explore the digital library of UCW. Another site One Drive will also provide you good academic studies. Research gate and Jstor, Google Scholar are also good sites to download academic research papers and studies.
Step 3: Complete all components of Research Paper mention above in Specification
Step 4: Final submission: In this step, please make sure for the final check of all components and plagiarism check.
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Topic: The Fur Trade in Canada and its effects in the economy of the country
(with focus in the economics in the era of colonization, with France and Britain looking for fur to the marketing of fashion, and how it helped the ecomimy of Canada).
