The key element in writing a background in introduction is having a classification of your topic. Meaning you need to realize that your readers are not inside your mind. This means you need to walk them through your mind set step by step. The job of your reader is to understand the topic not to deci...

Now that you have mentioned the importance of the topic in general, it is time to point out what makes your study worthwhile. This section is where you cite a couple of the studies done in the field and stress how lacking the field is regarding your stance point. The term lacking reflects the genera...

This part is where you mention the major findings of other researches, it is descriptive since you describe what the others have done. The next part which is more complicated is mentioning the controversies in the field The third part would be a critical evaluation, taking things one step further an...

This is where you go through the practical details of your research. Some researchers choose the term methodology as the title of this section. Caution must be exercised here because the term methodology is a philosophical term and is more conce ed with whether a research is qualitative or quantitat...

An abstract is your entire work in a nutshell. The rational behind an abstract is to put everything consicely. So if you are writing a paper, the optimal length of your abstract would be about one paragraph. In the case of a dissertation this could expand to one page but not more. There are several ...

xa0 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. xa0 Structure of a paper: - Abstract: which includes an overview of your work, your hypothesis and results - Intoduction: t...

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 Backgrou...

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, ...

xa0For every researcher, it is one of the primary steps of research to review the related literarture on the topic. As a result of this review, there will be some books and papers parts or notions of which are includedin the final research paper. since we are mandated by both ethics and rules of cop...