How To Use Education Research Articles in Your School Papers

School papers can vary from news reports, feature reports, multimedia reviews, and of course research papers. A news report is supposed to be short, detailed, and is usually written in a narrative way. Feature reports are supposed to be interesting, flowery but easy to read. Multimedia reviews are usually written in a narrative manner, give personal opinions and are unbiased. Research papers should have a good background study to back it up.

Education inquiry is different from school paper inquiry. Education inquiry requires thorough research while a school paper inquiry can be based on opinion, views, etc. Education research basically refers to online journals, sources found in the academe like in libraries, specifically books, articles, and research papers. When you write anything that comes from any of these sources, you need to cite them to avoid plagiarism. Here's how to properly use sources in your school papers.

Compared to education research, language research is trickier, so if you are quoting from different languages, be careful with changes in translation. A slight difference in translation could mean a totally dissimilar meaning. Schools research adheres to a certain work ethic, so make sure that your research is still aligned with these work ethics to avoid problems. Strategies research and instructional research are very detailed. You might want to tone down on these when you are translating it to a school paper style.

For research papers, you need to consult at least five sources of medium – at least five books, five articles, five research papers, five journals, etc. All of these should not be more than ten years old because if they are then they would be considered obsolete. And as mentioned already, any idea that you take from any of these mediums should be noted and cited properly in your paper.
Though for a school paper, you need to go light so you do not carry the mood of the educational research. You wouldn't want your teacher to think that what you wrote was a research paper instead of an interesting and entertaining school paper. You don't have to over analyze it or you might end up bringing about wrong ideas. You don't have to be very wordy because typical school paper articles are around 1,200 words only.

For school papers like news reports, you can't write about news that has been told ten years ago because news conveyed even a month ago are sometimes considered obsolete. 

When you want to refer to somebody else's multimedia review for you own review, check the reliability of the person who gave the review and do a background check. You cannot base your paper on a biased review so you have to be very careful in judging the source. For example, you give a perception for a certain product and you read this very positive review from a person. Soon, you find out that this person was a salesman of that brand, which makes the entire review invalid. So you just have to scrutinize your sources. If ever you want to use the perspective of other people in your paper, read and incorporate at least five reviews so it is not a single point of view. At the same time, consider the location because there is certain bias dependent on the country, etc.