Literature review

Title of your research report

Your name and affiliation

The date

Abstract -  write this AFTER you've done your research and report since this is a summary of what you did and your key finding

Introduction or Presentation of the Problem

A brief overview about why you wanted to do this research project

Review of the Literature

Highlight 2-3 key scholarly articles that you read as to what the main ideas were and how this impacts on what you are researching

Description of the Method 

How you went about researching your research question

This section has various names such as Methods, Research Design, Data

Results and Tables or Charts

Here you will summarize your findings

Surveys will have statistics

Interviews will have quotes

Whether you did a survey or interviews, you will have gone through your RESEARCH and looked for statistical patterns or verbal patterns/issues that you see your interviewees are highlighting.

Discussion

In this section, discuss your findings

Conclusion (also called Summary)

In this section discuss what your original research found.

Suggestions for Further Research

This is a suggested additional section where you share what you think you could do to expand on what you learned, e.g. survey MORE people, interview MORE people, expand the survey in terms of the number of questions, change how you did your sample, etc.

References

Also called Bibliography. This is the last part of your Research Report