Structures:

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 give suggestions for further study

Structure of a thesis:

- Chapter 1: Introduction

- Chapter 2: Review of literature

- Chapter 3: Methods

- Chapter 4: Results

- Chapter 5: Discussions & Conclusion

Structure of a proposal:

- Abstract

- Introduction

- Review of literature

_ Methods