RESEARCH PAPER

The following handouts are available at the Writing Center. They will either be posted on the Writing Center board, or can be obtained from a Writing Coach in the Writing Center. For further resources on this topic click on the Resources for Students page. Please be aware that the college uses APA format; however, the Writing Center has MLA handouts.

• APA Electronic Resources
• APA Documentation
• Assessing Author’s Reliability
• Attribution Words
• Attribution of Sources
• MLA/APA Patterns of Citation
• MLA Electronic Resources
• Five Paragraph Outline
• Guidelines for Developing a Research Paper
• Overview of the Research Paper
• Developing a Thesis Statement
• Thesis: Signals of Adversative Contrast
• Thesis: Signals of Concessive Contrast