When I have written a research paper in the past, the most difficult thing for me has been to get started and figure out how to best organize the whole paper. I feel overwhelmed with where to begin, what is a good topic, what to do with the research I have gathered, and how much time should I allow for editing and revising the paper. The Research Project Calculator would have been a very nice tool for me. I need to have deadlines set up so that I am not waiting till the last minute to finish. I think the Research Project Calculator would be a useful tool for procrastinators like me.
The high school has a class titled Library Research. The teacher has a schedule for every step of the way, when he wants things finished what they should be working on. However, it doesn't always seem like the students know how to begin or where to begin. I think the RPC could be a very useful tool for students who are struggling with where to start and how to get organized.
At first it looks like there really wasn’t much to the Calculator. I thought it was like here is what you should do and when you should finish it. Then I got into the Teacher's Guide and Support Materials. There are a lot of materials to help students get started and organized. At the high school, students could use the supportive materials to get started and see their work progressing so that it would be easier to write the paper.
I will be sending this link, http://rpc.elm4you.org/, on to teachers to help students get organized and to help them organize their research papers.
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