Main Body of the Paper

Main Body of the Paper

The main body of the paper features a logical development of your outline subdivisions. Orderly presentation of ideas, well-reasoned statements and proper documentation will provide continuity and the thematic development from one paragraph to another.

 

1.Introduction:

The first section served as an introduction to the area of consideration. It has two important purposes:

a.                 gaining the readers interest and

b.                presenting the thesis.

A clear statement of the problem with specific questions to be answered or hypotheses to be tested is presented first. A consideration of the significance of the problem and its historical background is also appropriate. Specific purposes of this study are described, and all assumptions, limitations, and delimitations or recognized. All-important terms are carefully defined, so that the reader may understand underlying the development of the investigation.

 

 

2.Review of literature:

The second section reviews the important literature related to the study. Previous research studies are abstracted, and significant writings of authorities and the area under study are reviewed. The purpose of this part are to:

a.     provide a background for the development of the present study;

b.    put the hypothesis to be examined made in the research and to its proper context;

c.     bring the reader up to date; and

d.    provide him with guidelines regarding where he can look to find more information.

 

3. Design of the study:

The third section explains the design of the study in detail. The size of the samples and how they are selected, the variables and the controls employed, the sources and methods of gathering data, the reliability of instrument selected or constructed, and the statistical procedures used in the analyses are carefully described.

 

4. Results:

Section four enclosed the presentation and analyses of the data. This is the heart of the research report and it makes the results of the study available for the reader to examine. Through textual discussion and tabular and graphic, the data are critically analysed and reported. Tables and figures are used to clarify significant relationships. Good tables and figures are constructed and titled so they are self-explanatory, so they should be relatively simple, pointing up one or two significant relationships. Textual discussion may be used to point out generalizations and significant interpretations, but not to restate the information that they have presented.

 

5. Summary and conclusions:

The first section consists of a summary. After a brief statement of the problem and a description of the procedures used in the investigation, and conclusions are presented. Finding are statement of factual information based on the data analyses. Conclusions are answers to the questions raised, or the statement of acceptance or rejection of the hypotheses proposed. The proposers of conclusions are to remind the readers of the thesis and provide a sense of finality.

 The summary is probably the most difficult section of the report to write. In many respects it looks a lot like the abstract. The major difference is that when writing the summary you can assume that the reader has read the rest of the report.

It may be appropriate in concluding this part of the report to indicate the promising side-problems that have been uncovered and to suggest areas of problems for further investigation. 

 References:

Atallah, Dhuha. (2011). A Course in Library and Research Work. College of Basic Education/ Al-Mustansiriah University.