Creating Your Research Paper

Use these assignment calculators to help you stay on track. Just add the date that you're starting the assignment and the date that it's due. The assignment will be broken down into smaller steps with suggestions, deadlines, and helpful hints..

• University of Minnesota research paper assignment calculator
• University of Maryland assignment calculator

Read the assignment carefully to be sure that you understand it. If you have any questions, email or visit the professor before you get started.

• Understanding Writing Assignments - This guide from the Purdue OWL shows you how to read a writing assignment to understand what you need to do.
• Understanding Your Assignment - Analyzing the task of the assignment. What does the professor expect?  From the University of Maryland
• Decoding the assignment - Evaluate? Discuss? Interpret? Analyze? What's the difference? This chart from George Mason University decodes the assignment.