Essential Parts Of A Research Paper: A Brief Overview

If you do a research paper, you do it to show other people the results of a certain study that you have conducted. You need not only to do the study but also to represent everything you want to say about the process of researching and its results in a comprehensive way. There are certain rules for academic papers of this type. The rules regulate the way the paper should be organized for better understanding. Below, you will find a brief overview of the main structural parts of your project.

  1. A title page.
  2. As you can easily guess, this page is meant to convey the title of the work and its author’s name. Additional details involve the name of the author’s educational facility, supervisor’s name, etc.

  3. An abstract.
  4. This page provides a brief summary of the project and its goal. More information on these questions should be located in the introduction.

  5. An introduction.
  6. In this quite short and laconic part, authors expresses several key points: why the study was done, what the purpose was, how the results were achieved, what is going to be with the study in future. This part is supposed to be interesting enough to catch readers’ attention.

  7. Area of focus.
  8. In a nutshell, this part of your project is meant to show the audience who can benefit from the information given in the paper.

  9. Related literature.
  10. In this part, as you can guess, you render a list of literature works that have something to do with the project and its topic.

  11. Body paragraphs.
  12. These paragraphs represent the body of your work. You need to render some reference material that shows the way other people have already worked over the problem and their opinion. Then, you need to show readers your own point of view and represent your own study. Explain the methods you have used to analyze and interpret the data; show how you have come to your particular findings. Don’t be too vague and remember that each point of your study should occupy a separate paragraph.

  13. Conclusions.
  14. In the concluding part of your work, you need to show what you have achieved, how your findings correlate with your initial goals and how effective your study was.

There is a smart tip regarding the goals and findings in an academic project: never compose goals until you have results. Once you’ve completed the study and received a certain result, you can start writing your intro and formulating goals.

 
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