The research writing paper is one of the most important "training" assignments for
college bound students. It teaches them valuable skills that will become essential:
- Learning about reference indices, discovering how to identify and locate source materials (information provided by experts) in your area of interest
- Engaging a topic and researching what others have said or discovered
- Synthesizing information to form an opinion or a position of your own that is logically derived from your research and your own thoughts
- Articulating that position in a logical discussion that can be easily followed and understood
These are the precisely the skills students are going to need to do well in college and succeed in their careers.
Dr Paper Software is designed to help students and teachers focus on polishing these skills
Here's how.
Dr Paper's Help system provides students with important background materials that introduce
them to the fundamentals of research writing. Some of the more helpful topics in the help file include:
We all know that good time managment is essential to good grades and professional
success. We also know that a significant percentage of students wait until the last possible moment to
begin doing a research paper that was assigned four weeks before the due date.
Dr. Paper provides your students with a handy Paper Calendar
that will create a timeline for your students, with deadlines, and helpful instructions, for what needs to be accomplished
by a certain date. Students just type in a start and end date -- the Paper Calendar provides them with a customized
schedule. They can print out this schedule to keep in their notebooks, and save the web page with the links
to the instructions and links.
The Paper Calendar gives students a clear idea of how
much time needs to be devoted to background
research, how far ahead of the due date they need to have a rough draft ready for polishing -- and,
really helpful tips about how to find useful research materials, how to use a variety of software programs,
how to correctly format their documents, and how to cite sources correctly.
Parents, also, will appreciate having access to this planner. They can plot out a schedule, and make sure
to remind students when they have missed one of the checkpoints.
It won't eliminate procrastination, of course, but it will help them plan their time wisely.
Most plagiarism is simply the result of poor research habits. Students sometimes just don't
know that when you paraphrase another person's writing, you still need to cite it -- so they don't
pay attention to the bibliographic information needed to cite the source. Even more often,
though, students simply can't document their sources, because they lose the slip of paper
or notecard with the bibliographic information they needed. Either that, or they just forgot to jot it
down at the time, and then they can't find the original book or article again.
Dr Paper's CiteWrite software helps students avoid these difficulties, by helping them develop
good research habits. Our system encourages them to enter quotations and bibliographic information
in ONE file, using "electronic notecards," every time they finish reading an article, book, or web page
for their paper. Our help system provides them with a wide range of examples, making it easy for
them to figure out how to cite a web page correctly, where to find the right date of publication for
a book, and when to include the issue number for a journal. Using our CiteWrite software will help
them to document sources properly as they are researching a topic -- (not at the last minute,
as they are writing).
These research habits that they build now will grow into a valuable skill that will give
them a distinct advantage in the college classroom.
Formatting documents and bibliographic references correctly is an important aspect
of research writing. For one thing, this will be an absolute requirement on the college
level; students who learn to format papers correctly early will have an edge on their
peers at the college level.
For another, consistently formatted papers and bibliographic references make
grading and reading much easier for teachers. Just consider, for a moment, the time teachers
spend checking citations of web pages to make certain they are correct -- time they could
devote to helping their students develop their discussions logically, and present support
for their ideas and positions effectively.
During the research phase, Dr Paper Software helps your students collect bibliographic
information consistently, and accurately; during the writing phase, it helps them format
their documents in proper MLA or APA style -- using easy to read fonts and regular
document settings (so that all five page papers are exactly the same length).
Our goal is to help teachers encourage students to focus on the real goals of the research writing
assignment, and to teach them how to use technology effectively.
We offer teacher training, workshops, and excellent support services.
When your seniors get ready to head off to college, they will be able to take a copy of the
software with them.
Call us now and talk to one of our experts -- we are happy to answer any and all questions
you have about how the Dr Paper Software works.
866.397.2424
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