Steps to write a Research paper                         

Today we had extra lectures for the LFS module because the lecturer was abroad the previous week and we had lot of free time in college playing the fool and by the look on everyone's faces they weren't very happy this week because all our free time was going to be taken to cover up the missed LFS lectures :( 

But fortunately today's lecture was going to be about how to write a research paper and what topics must be covered in it. The content of the paper is divided into 5 main topics and those are:

1) Introduction
Give a brief description of what the research paper is about and what the user will expect in the latter parts of the paper. For example : What is this project, why are doing it, how did you do that, resources accessed and method used (Business research methods by Pitzman)

2) Problem analysis

• What is your research issue
• Analyze general trends

3)Literature survey

• Places your study in the context of other work that has already been done in the field.
• Informs your reader about the theories your study is based on.
• Defines terminology and concepts drawn upon in your study.

                                CGU Writing Center (2012)

4) Critical evaluation
Comparison and contrast of your work and also other researchers work and what information they have gathered and comparing it with your evaluation on the particular topic.

5) Conclusion
Here the necessary recommendations are given on how to improve the situation and with reference to previous research papers the conclusion can be drawn out.



For more tips on how to write literature survey please visit the link below
http://www.cgu.edu/pages/899.asp
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/resources/handouts-demos/specific-writing-assignments/literature-reviews