Manuals Research Ethics Publishing Research Research Course Outlines Research Bibliography Research writing consists of the written report of a research study. It is its own writing genre. Like any other genre, it has defining conventions and rules.
All research starts out as a burning question that someone wants to find an answer to.
Questions and their answers always exits within a larger context, usually with its own history and background information generated by others interested in some version or piece of the same problem. Sometimes a problem is so complex that it has to be divided into sub-problems. All writing assumes basic proficiency in sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. But in addition there are specific rules for how to quote and cite published materials, how to construct a bibliography, etc. AMRC is a joint project of its users, designed to support the resource and communication needs of producers and consumers of arts management research.