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Data Collection Strategies for Scientific Research Papers
Scientific research papers…What are they?
Being a student you face the need to write numbers of papers every day, but have you written a scientific research paper yet? If you are not sure, here are some peculiarities that make scientific research papers different from other types of academic writing tasks:
- The topic of a scientific research paper is always directly related to a science (as contrasted to paper in humanities);
- A scientific research paper is based on research data (which means that this paper requires more research than personal analysis);
- You used figures, equations, or formulas of some kind in your work.
If all the above points can be related to the work you have recently done, then you say that you coped with a scientific research paper. But if not, here are some data collection strategies to help you. Remember that data collection is basic for a scientific research paper:
- Study, or review, your class notes and textbooks used in class;
- Consider any possible handouts that your teacher might have distributed;
- Read and analyze some sources from the list of advisable readings for your course;
- Discuss other sources with your teacher and get busy with considering them;
- Look for the relevant data in peer-reviewed and professional journals;
- Use the Internet to find the data you might also need in your scientific research paper.
The above strategies are presented in the order of their relevance for data collection while writing a scientific research paper. As far as scholarly writing is concerned, you first use the scholarly resources like book or journals and only in case of further necessity you address the Internet.
