Depending on whether you are writing a paper, a proposal or a thesis, the structure of your work might differ. In this post we are going to review these sturctures briefly. Structure of a paper: - Abstract: which includes an overview of your work, your hypothesis and results - Intoduction: this is where you set the scene and promblematize the issue and explain its importance - Literature review: this is a critical review of what is known and what the problems are - Methods: this section includes an explanation of your approach, details and demographics such as the number of participants and so on - Results: description of what happened, statistical methods, tables, ... -THE TABLES AND GRAPHS MUST BE CONSISTANT WITH APA - Discussion: what the result means and why this is important. You need to answer two questions here, why so and so what. This is where you get creative and analytical - Conclusion: sum up the entire study, say the final message, review the previous sections and gi

The inrtoduction of your thesis or proposal is an important in many ways. It is the very first impression you make on your readers and it is best you make a strong one. An introduction consists of several parts. The following gives an outline of an introduction and how you can write it. 1.1 Background You give a general background and mention the significance of the matter at hand. 1.2 Statement of the problem You specify the gap in the bulk of research,what has been missing. Expressions used in this part carry a negative tone, expressions such as however, there has been a lack of, little attention has been given to. 1.3 Purpose of the study For one paragraph you elaborate on the purpose of your study, using example such as this study intends ..., the aim of this study ... . You do not talk about the implications of the study and how your work is important. 1.4 Research hypothesis This is where you mention your hypothesis, H0 or H1 determine the interpretation of your results. 1.5 R

In writing any academic paper there is a certain template to be followed and as mentioned in the previous post, the template used in linguistics is APA6th. It is axiomatic that the going over the entire manuscript would require a lot of time and is absolutely beyond the scope of this post. However, following is going to give you a starting point and familiarize you with the basics. WRITING A PAPER FOLLOWING APA6th STYLE: The pages of your paper need to have a margine of 1inch on each side. They must be double spaced, i.e. there should be a 2-centimeter distance between the lines. And the text must be typed using Times New Roman with a font size of 12. The outlook of the first page (title page) : This is the general outlook of the first page. Please note that exept for the title page, all the other pages should have only the title as their header.(WITHOUT RUNNING HEAD) IN-TEXT CITATION: In the previous post we leaed how we can use another author's notions in a paper. In this