Your research paper shall consist of the following parts, in the order shown:

1. Cover page, with abstract. The abstract is a short one-paragraph description of the paper’s topic. It’s intended to help other researchers see what the scope of the paper is, so they can quickly decide if it covers the area they’re working on. For example, it may say that the paper covers the impact of smart phones on privacy and how to protect yourself, without giving any information about what can and should be done to accomplish that.

2. Introduction: The purpose, scope, and objectives of your paper. The significance of your topic—why you think it is important enough or interesting enough for you to study.

3. Discussion: The information you collected, with footnotes for your citations of your references. The analysis you performed, the conclusions you reached, and the recommendations (if any) that you are making. Your topic may not call for any recommendations; you’re not required to make any, but you should try to draw conclusions about possible future directions, even if you can’t choose any of them.

4. Conclusions and Recommendations: A summary list of the ones you made in the Discussion section. If you haven’t made any recommendations, you may title this section just “Conclusions.”

5. Bibliography: The books and journals from which your information came. This should include only those publications that you cite in the Discussion section, not those that you read but didn’t use. Each entry should have an identifying tag as explained below in the References section

References & Bibliography: