Custom Research Paper Services as a Means to Help Students Become Better Learners

American High Schools, in many cases, have failed students. Though 95 percent of incoming college freshman graduated high school with a B- average or better they arrive unprepared for the rigors of university coursework, a particularly problematic aspect of which is the inability to perform basic research. (United States Census Bureau).

According to current projections only a little more than one third of full time freshman entering four-year institutions this year will walk at their respective May commencements with the graduating Class of 2016, and about half will even have anything, save for mounting student loan debt, to show for their work after six years of college. One in three freshman "need to take some sort of remedial or developmental course, a class in the basics of reading, English or math covering material they should have learned in high school,." (Spak) (Alliance for Excellent Education)

The means of redress for academic deficits, remediation does not confront the postsecondary research and paper writing process as such. Moreover, the facility to execute a study lies beyond the scope of a student's proficiency in specific academic disciplines. The skills of effective enquiry and analysis - the fundamentals of sound research, are a separate field of study unto itself with specific practices and mores. Without these rudimentary competences, success is bound to elude an incoming postsecondary student irrespective of his or her knowledge of a particular course material, as the application thereof by way of rigorous inquiry is the means by which said knowledge is evaluated at the university level.

Example research and model academic paper services such as CustomDissertation.com can serve as a working model from which the client, a student can observe and assess how the conceptual framework of a given research modality is specifically implemented and thusly do a comparative analysis so as to evaluate the effectiveness or lack thereof in his or her own research project. A student who has not otherwise been introduced to the pedagogy of research can see meticulous enquiry for one's self via the application of an analytical methodology to evidence amassed through relevant methods of data collection. "What is important about disciplined inquiry is that its data, arguments, and reasoning be capable of withstanding careful scrutiny by another member of the scientific community." (Shulman 1988 in Punch)

Therefore, if provided with the actual inquiry or subject area to be explored for said assignment, the service can indeed show the client a tangible example of a rigorous undergraduate or graduate study evincing the import of "disciplined enquiry and the fit between the component parts of a research project." (Punch) The client may then use the example paper as a modus operandi from which to revise his or her own approach "Whilst research is often viewed as a linear series of separate steps...research is cyclical, can be entered at almost any point; is a never-ending process; will cause you to reconsider your practice; and will return you to a different starting place." (Hughes; Tight)

Akin to the professor who displays a word problem on the whiteboard or outlines the basic precepts of subject matter by way of power point presentation, example research and its concomitant paper is in effect a demonstration tool, inasmuch as the client can examine those steps upon which the writer embarked so as to likewise implement a similar approach to his or her research assignments heretofore. While the philosophies and precepts of qualitative v. quantitative research, or reading an entire MLA Sourcebook are often tedious and overwrought -- especially if a student need take a prescriptive approach i.e. get his or her assignment done -- seeing the necessary basics thereof tangibly applied to one's subject area can arm the client with a basic competency; one they can then expound and improve upon for his or herself, thus rendering the student more a responsive and therefore superior learner.

Works Cited

Alliance for Excellent Education. "Students College Access." 2009. Alliance for Excellent Education, There's a crisis in America's high schools About the Crisis. Web Page.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2011 High School Graduates. Economic Release. Washington DC: United States Department of Labor.

Alliance for Excellent Education. "Students>College Access." 2009. Alliance for Excellent Education, There's a crisis in America's high schools >About the Crisis.

Hughes, Christina. Department of Sociology, Research Design.

Knapp, L.G., Kelly-Reid, J.E., and Ginder, S.A. Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2009; Graduation Rates, Cohorts; and Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2009 (NCES 2011-230). U.S Department of Education. Washington DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2011.

NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policy-making and Analysis. "Graduation:Graduation Rates." 2012.

Punch, K. Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. London: Sage.

Spak, Kara. "Report: Over a third of students entering college need remedial help." Chicago Sun-Times: Web Page (Research Section).

Tight, et al. How to Research. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996.

United States Census Bureau. The 2012 Statistical Abstract Education. US Census Data. Washington DC: US Department of Commerce.