The reason you are writing a research paper along with your science project is to explain how the experiments that you performed turned out the way that they did. This means that you need to make detailed notes along the way as you perform various experiments to write an authentic research paper.

You will also need to find the right terms and definitions for all variables involved in your experiments. There is great value in explaining the concepts and important words that are related to your science project in the research paper as it shows the judges that you have done your homework.

Other information that you can include in the research paper will be any mathematical formulas that you use, the details of any previous experiments on the same concept that have been conducted and any pictures that you may have taken along the process.

If you are using material that you have not generated on your own but got from elsewhere, it must be properly cited with an appropriate citation. Also be careful when you copy text from a book. This must be put into quotation marks and the author and book mentioned in the citation. That way you avoid any plagiarism, even accidentally in your science fair project based research paper.