How to write a research paper and what are its basic parts?

Writing a research paper is the most important part as it needs more attention as compared to the other seven steps of the research process. Once you are done with your data processing and data analysis, next and the final step is to compose a written draft of your research. Let us discuss this in detail:

Parts of the research paper:

• Title
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework and literature review
• Methods or procedure
• Results of the study
• Conclusion or discussion
• Bibliography or references

Title:

The title of the research paper should be simple and informative. It should be related to your research paper and should be descriptive as well as concise. It should be able to give some idea about the methodology being used in a research paper.

Abstract:

• The abstract is a summary of your whole research paper.
• Its standard length is between 100 to 500 words.
• Parts of the abstract are the goals and objectives of your research paper, a short introduction and should be highlighting that what would be the results or conclusion of your research paper.

Introduction:

It has three main purposes.

• The first one is that, it provides the background and motivation for your topics.
• Secondly, it describes the focus and purpose of the paper you are writing.
• The third one is that it gives an overview of what your research paper includes and what are its various sections.
• In short, it tells its readers about the background of the study, statement of problem, objectives that were set by you to conduct this research and in last significance of this study that is done by the researcher.

Theoretical framework and literature review:

• It usually includes the theoretical perspective of your research study.
• The current reviews of literature related to your study and research topic.
• Samples for your research study that help you conduct your research should be added (only if they are in the form of literature).

Methods or procedure:

• This section of your research paper describes what has been done by you in your research process and what strategies were used to attain the aims and objectives of the proposed study.
• In this part, sample calculations are provided to describe how data was collected and analyzed by the researcher.
• The goal of this part is to make readers able to repeat your work and gather more information about it if desired.

Results of the study:

• In this part, a researcher proves his study and results with the help of data that was used.
• The result is displayed in the form of graphs, charts and tables.
• These results are followed by a brief description of what was gained as the result of each point.
• It acts as a guide for your readers to understand your main point for conducting research and the purpose of using specific data and populations.

Discussion:

• You introduce the accomplishments that you gained with the help of this research.
• You may also describe interesting observations, new questions and plans to others with the help of your research paper’s conclusion.

Conclusion:

• Here you state what you have learned or proved based on your research questions and statement of problem.
• You conclude all the results in a short format so that the reader might get a complete idea before even reading the whole research.

Bibliography or references:

• It contains the list of reference works that were cited by you during your research.
• You must note down every reference and must not misguide others by providing wrong references.
• For bibliography and references from books, it should be chronological in order.

For internet references title of the topic and web link both should be provided in this section.