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Despite the illusion, the research-paper writing process (as with any writing process) is quasi-linear at best. Follow the green navigation bar on the left from top to bottom to follow the nine major steps in writing a research paper, or if you're working on a particular step, click on that step to jump ahead in the process. The entire process will require a lot of hard work on your part, but the results will be more than satisfying if you give it your best. In the end, you'll have passed an important "write of passage" in your academic career and picked up a heap of useful skills along the way. Though we've laid the process out step by step, the hypertext capability of the Web allows you to rewind and fast-forward at your own ease, pace, and convenience. So for a picture of what the process will really end up being like, see Cleveland State University Writing Center's map of the writing process. Remember that our OWL tutors are around to help you at any stage of the process. Email them with any questions that you may have. Now take a deep breath and click on Genre. The journey's about to begin. Before you even consider the "topics" issue, take some time now to find out how to save yourself headaches and agony by thoroughly understanding the assignment. Good. Now that you have some guidelines on what you'll be doing, you need something to do it on: a topic. Either luckily or unluckily depending on your own need for guidance, the professor may not only dole out the assignment but even hand out sheets of possible topics or actual thesis statements to defend. Here's a shortened version of one for a correspondence course on Shakespeare: Choose one of the topics below and write a short essay clearly arguing a thesis that you have formed based on that topic. How does Love's Labor's Lost parody conventions of courtly love? Some critics have argued that nothing happens in Love's Labor's Lost.
Approximate Word count = 1333
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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