THE STRUCTURE OF A RESEARCH PAPER

INTRODUCTION/ PREFACE

- General evaluation on the social/ scientific/ professional/ market … situation -- deciding
on the topic of the research paper
- Objects: audience and/ or target audience (optional)
- Aims

LITERATURE REVIEW & METHODS

LITERATURE REVEW (optional)

- Reference sources (materials)

- Related pieces of research (creditable)

METHODS

- Doing experiments
- Making surveys/ questionnaire (specific time, location, objects)
- Interviewing (direct/ indirect with specific time, location, objects)
- etc….

CONTENT/ RESULT(S)

- Procedures in researching/ experimenting

- Result(s): presented in graphs, charts, tables, diagrams… (optional)
- Result analysis (be objective, no personal comments)

DISCUSSION & SUGGESTION(S)

- Remarks and/ or comments on the results (be objective)

- Suggestions/ Agenda for action

CONCLUSION/ ABSTRACT

- An overview on the topic researched