Writing an A+ Research Paper

Want your students to craft top-notch essays?

Writing an A+ Research Paper: A Roadmap for Beginning and Experienced Writers helps you guide your students through the process of writing focused, clear, and concise research papers.

This powerful book for high school students introduces a definitive timeline and step-by-step instructions for choosing a topic, writing a thesis, gathering sources, creating an outline, turning in notes, drafting, and completing a final paper.

Students also have the opportunity to analyze and critique sample student essays. Practicing with these essays will steer your students in the right direction when they sit down to write their own research papers. It also helps you teach them to avoid plagiarism by properly citing sources and writing in their own words.

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How is Writing an A+ Research Paper organized?

The sequence of the book is intended to follow the student through an in-class research project, from the day the teacher assigns it to the submission of the final paper.

During every step of the process, students interact with two hypothetical students: Ella, whose work provides models for ideal writing, and Rob, whose work the students will analyze, critique, and help develop.

Does Writing an A+ Research Paper contain exercises?

Yes! There are exercises for students to practice every step of the research process. First, students study Ella’s models. Then, they help Rob fix his paper. Finally, they apply what they’ve learned to their own papers.

Throughout the process, students will practice narrowing research topics, identifying primary and secondary sources, evaluating potential sources, writing an outline, taking notes on sources, avoiding plagiarism, and more.

Will Writing an A+ Research Paper support my Advanced Placement (AP)* and International Baccalaureate (IB) curricula?

Absolutely! The book’s strong focus on the use of primary sources and the students’ evaluation and synthesis of information make it an ideal resource for upper-level students.

How is Writing an A+ Research Paper different from other research books?

This book strongly focuses on the use of primary sources and on the need to analyze and evaluate information rather than merely repeating what the sources have said.

In addition to evaluating print sources, Writing an A+ Research Paper deals with internet research.

It emphasizes the dangers of copying from unreliable sources to produce an unoriginal product, a warning students need with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to produce work on the rise.

Which grade level is this book series best suited for?

Depending on the level of students’ writing, Writing an A+ Research Paper could be used from 9th to 12th grade, and even through freshman year of college, if necessary.

That said, it’s primarily geared for students in grades 11–12 enrolled in college-prep and above courses.

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