introduction section of the research

· the background information about your research topic;

· a polished and refined literature review of at least those four sources with which you already worked before;

· the research gap; and

· your research question(s) and purposes.

A little bit later following this structure will definitely simplify your work on your upcoming research proposals as well.

4. As well as the previous and the future assignments for our class, your Introduction section should be formatted according to the rules of APA, including the appropriate title page, running head, list of references on a separate page at the end of the section, Times New Roman 12, double-spaced, 0.5''-indented at the beginning of each new paragraph, etc.

5. To improve the quality of your Introductions, you are encouraged to use the Introduction sections of the journal articles which we discussed in class and/or which you worked with for the previous assignments in our class. Your Introductions shouldn't be much longer or shorter than 2.5-3.5 pages, but the  Introduction sections from those journal articles can give you some additional insights about the optimal ways of structuring/organizing and formatting your Introduction as well as allow you to use a more diverse and appropriate language there, etc. Consulting the related handouts and exercises which we used for this in class earlier and in our today's class may be helpful in this case too.

6. Please don't forget to consider the marks/comments and the feedback on your previous assignments in general when working on and rereading/revising your Introductions. This hopefully should ensure that this time the quality of your writing should become better and more professional-like. Thanks!