While you will be writing a systematic review (and there will be a specific module for it), the following is what a typical research paper looks like and its components. While you may not 100% have everything mentioned here in your ARPL journey, it is more than essential to fully understand and absorb everything mentioned here for your future empirical (and other review) research papers.

Also, note that the following sections are the ones that make up a standard (basic) research paper. These sections can be altered based on the field, the specific research question, and the type of research, among other factors. For instance, the journal you are submitting to for publication or the research conference you are submitting to for presentation can highly impact your paper’s structure, including what sections you need to include, their order of appearance, and even the word count of each, among other subtle details.

In ARPL, your mentor and you will work closely together to determine exactly what sections you will include. (More on this will be elaborated in the guidance later under “Outline.”)

The following series of guides will walk you through the following components:

• Title Page
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References