Knowledge is the first pursuit and understanding is the ultimate goal that humans seek to attain. Asking questions is the best way to acquire knowledge and understanding, and this is what students of knowledge do at every stage. The organized way of asking questions and reaching the truth is through scientific research.
Scientific research begins by observing the problem and phenomenon, which raises questions in the human mind. The human mind then provides a set of assumptions to reach the truth, and in the end, experimentation is necessary to confirm the validity of these assumptions.
Let's take Newton as an example. He was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, and because he had an open mind, he observed the phenomenon that surprised him. At that moment, Newton asked many questions, such as: Why did the apple fall? Do all apples fall to the ground? Do all objects, if thrown in the air, fall and not fly? From there, Newton made scientific assumptions and went on to conduct experiments that led him to the famous law of gravity.
Therefore, every student of knowledge should observe different phenomena, problems, and issues in their society, ask questions, and search for answers to attain knowledge and help their community and country.
Here is a simple guide and some tools to help students prepare their research paper and save time and effort:
A Simple Order for a Research Paper:
- Cover Page.
- Table of Contents.
- Introduction.
- Research Problem.
- Significance of Research.
- Research Terminology.
- Previous Studies and Research.
- The Theoretical Aspect of Research.
- The Practical Aspect.
- Research Results.
- Recommendations.
- Bibliography.
- Appendices.
Now, let's talk about the most important tools that can help students prepare their research paper using applications that work on phones and computers, which facilitate the process of writing, preparation, and reading.
Tools for Writing a Research Paper: "Research Paper Circle"
Firstly: Scientific research:
Google has introduced the Google Scholar service, which is a specialized search site that makes it easy to access scientific references, books, and articles with great ease.
Secondly: Keep application:
The Keep application allows you to write, divide, and classify notes, and students can use this application to write separate paragraphs of research, title them, categorize them, and easily return to them and edit them when needed.
To download the Keep application.
Thirdly: Image-to-text conversion tool:
In his research, the researcher relies on several books and references that come in both paper and electronic forms, and he needs to quote from them in both cases by transferring what is written, which takes a long time. However, using an image-to-text conversion tool can save a lot of time, as we only need to take a picture of the page we want to quote from or take a screen shot of the page from a PDF file and upload the image to the Ocr space website, and obtain it as text. Then, we can copy and paste it and edit it inside the Keep application.
Website https://ocr.space/
Fourthly: Word application:
The Word application from Microsoft specializes in processing texts and documents, and here the student collects everything he has found in the research from the cover page to the appendices and the end of the research.
This application works on computers and smartphones, and there are two versions of it: Ms Word and the Google Documents version.
Fifthly: PDF file reader from Adobe
Adobe has introduced the best application for previewing files in PDF format, which facilitates the process of navigating between files, browsing them, and writing notes inside the file to return to them when needed. It is essential for every student and reader.
These tools are important and helpful in accomplishing many tasks related to scientific research, and they are applications and a website that saves effort for the student and gives him the necessary time to focus on the research topic, its tasks, and results, and to devote his effort to observation, research, and experimentation in an attempt to reach the truth and seek wisdom, as wisdom is the lost property of the believer.
By: Maher Daboul.
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