A research paper is
A. creative, unstructured, first-person writing.
B. casual, third-person, entertaining writing.
C. thoughtful, analytical, academic writing.
D. bullet-pointed, technical, factual writing.
A research paper is considered to be the work that is a culmination of hundreds of hours of work put into one technical writeup which serves as the groundwork for what was done in that particular research. For that reason, the asnwer to your question would be C - thoughtful, analytical and academic writing.
