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Paper 3: Your Research on American College Life
After you have received comments on your Research Plan and have done some observation or interviewing, you will be ready to write your full first draft of Paper 3. Below are the elements that your paper should include.
A. Introduction:
1. Here is a problem.
2. Others have noticed this problem (refer to your readings).
3. My personal experience qualifies me to judge this problem (introduce yourself as student at UMass.)
4. Here is the research question I want to explore. What I found: (your thesis).
B. Results (or) Data: (Description of your research and the results)
1. Tell what you actually did for the research (observed what? Interviewed who?)
2. Tell results of your observation and/ or interviews. What happened? What did participants say or do? (You may have written some results already for your research plan and you may have more to add after another week of observation and thinking.)
C. Analysis: What do you understand from your data? What do you think teachers, ESL students, or someone else can learn from your research data?
D. Conclusion: Try offering a fresh thought on the same topic in order to keep challenging your reader to think about your research. Do not “rush to closure” as Ramage says writers sometimes do. That means: don’t offer a simplistic solution such as “This proves teachers must be more careful!” Instead, maybe you can point out what interested you in your research results, or what was unexpected or particularly instructive.