Writing Winning Research Papers

This course is intended for undergraduate students, graduate students, scholars, and anyone who wishes to write and/or publish their research. This course enables anyone who wants to develop the skills they need to become successful writers in their academic and post-academic careers. There are five sections in this course: Section 1. Assessing Your Writing Skills & Planning a Research Paper; Section 2. Writing the Introduction; Section 3. Writing the Literature Review; Section 4. Writing the Methods; Section 5. Writing the Results and Discussion (including effective tables and figures) & the Research Paper Abstract.

This course also looks at sample writings for you to be able to understand the structure of each section in a research paper. The sample writings cover both social sciences and hard sciences. 

The topics included in this course are:

• How to plan a research paper

• How to evaluate one's own writing skills

• Writing the Introduction

• Writing the Literature Review

• Writing the Methods

• Writing the Results and Discussion, including effective tables and figures

• Writing the Research Paper Abstract.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Learn how to effectively plan and write the different sections of a research paper.

• Understand the rhetorical structure of introduction, literature review, methods, results and discussion, conclusion, and abstract.

• Learn how to integrate primary and secondary sources through summary, quotation, and paraphrasing.

• Develop critical, evaluative, logical, and analytical writing skills.

• Understand proper citation practices and the value of academic integrity.

There are no prerequisites for this course. Anyone who wants to develop their writing skills for their research will benefit from this course.