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Research Paper Writing Skills

researchpaperwriting — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:26:56 -0400

Despite the illusion, the research-paper writing process (as with any
writing process) is quasi-linear at best. Follow the green navigation
bar on the left from top to bottom to follow the nine major steps in writing
a research paper, or if you're working on a particular step, click on
that step to jump ahead in the process.

The entire process will require a lot of hard work on your part, but
the results will be more than satisfying if you give it your best. In
the end, you'll have passed an important "write of passage" <grin>
in your academic career and picked up a heap of useful skills along the
way.

Though we've laid the process out step by step, the hypertext capability
of the Web allows you to rewind and fast-forward at your own ease, pace,
and convenience. So for a picture of what the process will really
end up being like, see Cleveland State University Writing Center's map
of the writing process. Remember that our OWL
tutors are around to help you at any stage of the process. Email them
with any questions that you may have.

Now take a deep breath and click on Genre. The
journey's about to begin.

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More Effective Tips For Research Paper Writing

researchpaperwriting — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:10:02 -0400

Getting Started

* Prepare yourself for the custom writing process: decide how much time
you may dedicate to the work, arrange your personal time-table and
stick to it. Be ready to work on a regular basis, working by fits and
starts won’t do any good for your research papers. Give yourself enough
time to collect the required material.
    * Choose a topic that
will involve you in the writing process completely, it should be
original, valuable for the science, corresponding to your knowledge and
skills and challenging too.
    * Think over your thesis statement.
Keep it concrete and precise, narrow or widen it if needed. Make sure
there is enough available material on it. Ask for your professor’s
advice about your thesis statement’s accuracy.
    * Find out the
quality of the materials at your library’s disposal and the way these
materials are referenced. Consult a librarian about the rules set in
the library.

Taking Notes

Make use of small colored
cards. The color code will help you differentiate the numerous ideas of
your research. Write all annotated bibliography information in the way
you are going to do it in your research paper, thus you will have
footnotes and citations already made.

Be accurate while writing down statistics, tables or direct quotes.

Outline

Create an outline of your research paper. This will be a shortened form of your research papers:

* Expand your thesis statement to a paragraph, analyze the purpose of
your work and the ways to achieve it. This will be your introduction.

* Then propose the most important ideas in the form of headings and
subheadings. Find a note card to illustrate each one of them. This will
be the body of your work.
    * Ensure you have covered all the points you talked about in the thesis statement, summarize them in your conclusion.
    * We warn you: do not neglect the outline writing as its success almost guarantees the success of your research papers.

Writing Drafts

Make
several rough drafts and one final draft. Write as much rough drafts as
possible as it will improve the fluency of your writing language. Make
all the necessary changes in the rough draft copy: correct grammar
mistakes, spelling, style and format mistakes. Check paragraphs for
unity and cohesion.

Proofreading

Do not
hesitate to check your final draft over and over again. Pay special
attention to referencing. Put aside your research paper, have some rest
and do the same.

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Write A Dissertation like A Research Paper

researchpaperwriting — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:26:26 -0400

In addition of Jack Smith....I want to added
more that essay writing is also a part of acedemic writing as like
research paper.......To improve it we have to follow the following
listed guidelines:

First: Warm up beforehand by writing
something. We all perform better once we've got the rhythm. A smart
test-taker writes a letter to a friend while waiting for the test to
begin.

Second: Get excited. If you can get excited by what you're saying and
become energized by your own performance, the way an actor gets
energized just by being on stage in front of an audience, you'll have
won half the battle. As always, the easiest way to excite yourself is
to say something that matters to you and to write directly to someone
with the intent of moving him. Of course, many essay test topics make
this difficult. Do your best, and remember, a car salesman isn't
excited by the car; she's excited by the selling.

Third: Get down to cases. You may feel you don't have time, but that's
like thinking you're in such a hurry to leave town that you don't have
time to gas up. No idea is worth a hoot without some "for instances,"
so however short the essay is, you must use them. If your test answer
is two sentences long, make the first sentence into a thesis and the
second an example.

The rest of the universals all have to do with saving time. In essay
tests time is short, so take a moment to prewrite. The urge is to go
right to your first paragraph, but two or three minutes spent mapping
will usually pay for themselves by giving you a sense of direction
early. Too many writers discover the real direction of their essay on
page three when it's too late. (That was four.)

Fifth: Get on with it. Make sure that your first sentence jumps into
the heart of things. Skip all essay etiquette like a leisurely
introduction. Never repeat yourself.

More Tips Add for College Essay writing........................................... .................

Write in your own language. It takes time to translate your thoughts into someone else's language, and you don't have time.

Write only one draft. You won't have time to rewrite. If you write a
few lines and then disown them, just cross them out and keep on
writing. Almost any instructor will accept such messiness.

Be aware of the time. An unfinished good essay is worse than a finished okay essay.

Proofread for garbled meaning. You'll hate to spend the time, but hasty
writing is often garbled in ways that will crack up your instructor.
Just skim to see if you wrote the words you intended. It takes less
time than you think–perhaps twenty seconds to proofread a thirty-minute
exam.

Proofread your mechanics. Look only at your pet problems. Proofread for
them alone. You don't have time for a thorough editorial polishing.

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hi

aswani006 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:03:46 -0400

my name is ASWIN and i am doing my M.Tech 2nd yr in I.I.T.ROORKEE,INDIA.

i am working on application of meshfre techniuqe to elastoplastic materials.

upto now i have developed code in Mat-Lab for elastic.

now i am getting problem with plasticity.can anybody help me in this aspect how to add this plasti relation to elastic p[roblem and how to solve it

please help me so i will be very gratefull to them.

Re: Mechanical Design Principles of Ancient Fish Armor

Xiaodong Li — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:38:00 -0400

Thanks Christine for posting this exciting work. The paper reports lots of new insights about the toughening mechanisms. This is very helpful for my current research on biomaterials.

Re: Uncertainty and Monte Carlo

Biswajit Banerjee — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:18:30 -0400

Cosma Shalizi has a nice intro to Monte Carlo methods and pointers to other sources in his Notebooks. See http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/monte-carlo.html.

-- Biswajit

Viscoplasticity in heterogeneous metallic materials

PJ Guruprasad — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:12:11 -0400

This is a recent paper in Mater Sci Rev by David McDowell giving a
comprehensive review of the viscoplasticity in heterogeneous metallic
materials. You may find it useful.

doi:10.1016/j.mser.2008.04.003

Regds,

research process is like arrangement of a dynamic puzzle!

Roozbeh Sanaei — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:30:27 -0400

In fact if we call a result of a research a new thing!. every new thing is product of mutation and combination of two older things, research evolution is just like genetic evelution!. starting with an initial idea, trying to change it or combine it with other ideas, and sometimes choose another idea. first topic is only initial point of this iteration process. i think this outline is very static. topic of research comes out in the middle of process!.

Custom Research Paper Writing Short Tips & Guide

researchpaperwriting — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:07:51 -0400

Every person will have to write a research paper at some point in their lifetime. If you do not know the steps to writing a research paper, then it can become an overwhelming proposition. However if you know the steps to writing a research paper, then the task is not at all daunting. Breaking a research paper into small steps also allows you to focus on one part of the research paper at a time, which will translate into a much better finished product. Here are the steps needed to write a successful research paper:

Pick a Topic
Write a Thesis
Research
Write an Outline
Write a Rough Draft
Make Corrections/Changes
Write a Final Copy

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RSS feeds for comments

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:47:41 -0400

RSS feed for comments is http://imechanica.org/crss. You can also form many other RSS feeds of your own design. I'm not sure how the hits are counted, and will ask Lesley.

Hit numbers and RSS feeds

MichelleLOyen — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:14:09 -0400

Zhigang, I assume there is no way to account for those of us who read iMechanica by RSS feeds? I noticed recently that I had not been to the site in quite a while except via RSS. I also wonder, since I am probably missing out by just reading the posts by RSS, is there an RSS feed for comments?

Thanks for sharing.

Hugh H. Wang — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:40:30 -0400

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sure

bulls8862003 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:09:16 -0400

of cource i 'll post it if I got the key. I e-mail bruce and other fracture group mebers,but no replys. perhaps they are on vacation now.

Scientific Computing and

Donald X. Chen — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:42:39 -0400

Scientific Computing and computing Scientifically.

Excavation is a typical problem of geotechnical engineering. I didn't use Abaqus to carry out the FE analysis of thus problems. But I did some with other softwares. It seems that you are using the associated plastic flow rule (i.e. friction angle = dilation angle).

If unloaded Mohr-Coloumb soil with zero cohesion subjects to tension, the convergence problem may occure.

Good Luck!

X. Chen

photosynthesis for photovoltaics

Mike Ciavarella — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:14:18 -0400

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403402

Researchers claim photovoltaic cell advance

Amir Ben-Artzi
EE Times Europe
(04/30/2008 7:59 AM EDT)

NETANYA, Israel — Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel claim
they have found a way to construct efficient photovoltaic cells costing at
least a hundred times less than conventional silicon based devices, and with
similar or better energy conversion efficiency.
The reactive element in the researchers' patent pending device is
genetically engineered proteins using photosynthesis for production of
electrical energy.

The scientists applied genetic engineering and nanotechnology for the
construction of a hybrid nano -- bio, solid state device. According to the
researchers, although using photosynthesis for photovoltaic application is
not new, their specific technique is the first to enable the production of
useful photosynthesis-based photovoltaic cells.

The Israeli team is set to challenge others who are using photosynthesis for
photovoltaic cells, including universities such as Cambridge in the U.K.,
and Stanford, M.I.T, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the
Universities of Tennessee and Arizona in the U.S, and several others.

The researchers suggest existing silicon based photovoltaic cells offer low
average energy conversion efficiency of 12-14 percent, while their system is
capable of efficiencies of about 25 percent. They based their photovoltaic
device on genetically engineered dry proteins photosystem I (PS I),
encapsulated in solid state substrate bottom metal and a top transparent
electrode.

They also claim that PS I generates a stable charge separation in 200 ns
across 6 nm of protein to generate an electric potential of 1 V with quantum
efficiency of 1 and absorbed energy conversion efficiency of 47 percent. A
further advantage of PS I is said to be its transparency to infrared
radiation, which eliminates the need for expensive cooling equipment.

The researchers include Prof. Chanoch Carmeli, Dr. Shachar Richter, Dr. Itai
Carmeli and Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks. Ramot, Tel Aviv University s technology
transfer company, is set to help commercialize the invention.

Larry Loev, director of business development for high technologies at Ramot
told EETimes the low cost of the proposed device is based on the low cost of
PS I in comparison to silicon. While one square meter of PS I should cost
around $1, a similar area made of silicon should cost around $200.

"We connected our device to electrodes and we saw how it converts light to
electricity," said Loev.

EETimes Europe has learned that Ramot will probably use the industrial
facilities of solar energy specialist Millennium Electric T.O.U Ltd.
(Ra anana, Israel) for making prototype devices, including engineering of
the prototype up scaling, automation of production and the integration of
the university's photovoltaic cell with other components in the final
device. Ramot aims to develop a cost effective device of 10mm X 10mm in size
within three years.

Asked about the competition, Loev claimed: "Certainly many researchers are
looking into how to use photosynthesis to create photovoltaic cells.
However, a deeper look at what has been published shows major differences
between what our group has achieved and the rest. First, ours is the only
group to utilize an organic material in a dry and stable environment.

"Other groups have only done this under aqueous conditions which are much
less robust. Second, we are able to directly metallize the protein and make
good electronic coupling to the electrodes. Other groups have utilized
intermediate polymers for this purpose, which is a very complicated
procedure. Third, we have demonstrated multilayer capability, which is
crucial to getting good efficiency."