Determine your research question (the title of your paper should be your research question).
What are the benefits and drawbacks of a home-school education vs. a public school education?
2. Decide on a structure for your research question. Each paragraph should take one of the formats below. If you are a confident writer and have another idea, that’s fine. If these graphic organizers help you, please choose one; if not, feel free to disregard them.
1. Compare
2. Compare/contrast
3. Effect/Cause
4. Problem/Solution
5. Sequence
6. Examples
7. Narrative
3. Once you decide on your structure, begin searching on Google Scholar, Galileo and GIL for the topic. using descriptors like "effects of school lunch programs" Copy the resource in APA style for your bibliography.
4. Fill in your graphic organizers as your notes. You may find your research question changing, which is fine.
5. Write a paragraph by using the headings in your strucutre as topic sentences (you don’t have to use the same wording) and then state the your research underneath each one
6. Write transitions from one paragraph to another.
