Aspects of research paper

• Title page - always the 1st page, includes: title, authors, month/year
• Title - follows inverted pyramid, all fonts are the samme, all are capitalized, 10-15 words, must include dependent and independent variables, no heavy words
• Authors - alphabetical order
• Month/Year - month or year of publication
• Abstract - some of paper, includes: objectives of the study or Statement of the problem, methodology, results, conclusion, it gives an idea to readers, it's a literature review. Can't do this if the paper is not yet done
• Introduction - background information of the study, general to specific, based on title, 1 to 3 sentences, within 7-10 years and is based on SOP
• Statement of the problem - question form
• Objectives of the study - sentence form
• Definition of terms - conceptual and operational definitions, title then sop then introduction then literature review
• Conceptual definition - authored sources; paraphrased
• Operational definitions - based on how you use it
• Methodology - how are we gathering informations; qualitative or quantitative
• Qualitative- words only
• Quantitative - datas/statistics
• Results - tables only
• Discussions - interpret the table, explanations, verbal interpretations
• Conclusions - from discussions, SOPs are only on how much, 1 sentence only for each SOP
• References - sources to avoid plagiarism
• Apendix - extra materials; questionnaires, letters, certificates