For Over the Christmas Break

If you aren't familiar with research papers, these links might give you some ideas:

This is a fabulous site to get a good idea of what we'll be doing -- just remember this is college level, not high school or middle school level, so don't get intimidated.  Skim over the different samples and then look at the green tabs for information on the parts of the research paper.

This is an excellent summary you can skim to see the steps in writing a research paper.  We will be walking through these, basically.