Once you have a chosen general topic for your research paper, you should do all the following except
a. take a side on the issue and stick to it.
b. ask questions like who? what? when? where? why? how? to you narrow your topic down.
c. make a list of evidence from both sides of the issue so you can be sure to keep both sides even.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?  a.under a microscope; the organisms look a bit like ruffled tennis balls they have armored plates that fit together to make a round shape. b.when the water is disturbed; the organisms respond by glowing this makes swimmers look like floating beams of blue light. c.there is a bay in puerto rico that seems to light up at night; the light comes from tiny organisms in the water. d.the luminescence attracts visitors from around the world people are curious to see; this beautiful otherworldly sight.