<p>for samples, i suggest you read some science journal papers on sciencedirect or elsewhere.</p>
<p>research papers for science generally involve a new topic, or exploring something previously studied by another scientist/lab in greater depth, or applying methods designed by others to a new situation.</p>
<p>research papers talk about those things throughout, and they use experiments and data to prove what they’re studying. i see research papers as a formal, thorough analysis and presentation of the scientific process. You have an objective/something to study, you introduce your study and talk about what others have done to lead you to ask this question, you have a hypothesis, you design experiments, you run them and show your data, you show that your data is replicable, and then you analyze it, discuss it, and conclude.</p>
<p>thus, a paper involving just “can a research paper be just a detail of your experiement with data (like data collecting). For the latter one, one probably cannot use that research paper for any purpose aside from just recording data and what you found based on a single experiement” is NOT a research paper. that’s a crapshoot high school lab report that no one will give a s**t about. a research paper would talk about what the purpose of your study is and why you’re doing it. you would need to have more than one experiment, possibly hundreds, to show that your data is valid and replicable. you need to analyze what happened, make inferences, make conclusions, and possibly state what might need further study.</p>
<p>again, though, i really suggest you start reading some science journals and papers. pick what you’re interested in–bio, biochem, chem, physics, enviro science, geo, geochem–and look up some papers. read them, and if you’re confused about certain terms, wikipedia them (yes, i know it’s not a good source, but it does provide quick explanations).</p>