Chapter 1: Introduction
At beginning, the reader needs to be provided with information about:
• Set the scene, a context and seeing how it fits in with previous research in the field.
• The background to the work in the form of hypothesis question, research aim, key definitions, concepts used, problem, rationale, method approach, potential outcomes and describing remaining structure of the paper.
Chapter 2: Literature Review
• An overview of the subject, issue or theory under consideration.
• Critically review current theoretical and empirical research, e.g. compare and contrast, show strengths and weaknesses in relation to your research topic.
• Show how research discussed is relevant to your research topic.
• Highlight any gaps or deficiencies in current research.
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
An effectively written methodology section should:
• Introduce the overall methodological approach for investigating your research problem. Is your study qualitative or quantitative or a combination of both (mixed method)?
• Indicate how the approach fits the overall research design. Describe the specific methods of data collection you are going to use, such as, surveys, interviews, and questionnaires.
• Explain how you intend to analyse your results. Provide a rationale for subject selection and sampling procedure.
• Address potential limitations.
Chapter 4: Findings Results and Discussion
• Present relevant findings.
• Analyse those findings.
• Implications of findings they might have for the issues, problems or ideas that prompted the research.
• Observations those that are most relevant to the research problem under investigation.
• Discuss the implications of your results for theory and practice.
• Examine your results in comparison with other research.
• Evaluate the model, method, experiment, questionnaire you used.
• Deduction: lesson learnt, recommendation to improve situation either here or under conclusion and recommendation.
Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendations
• A retrospective evaluation of the research and its contribution.
• Recommendations for improving the situation, guidelines or codes of practice if not included in findings.
• Identification of new directions for further research.
References
You need to follow the University of Northampton guidelines of Harvard Referencing.
https://skillshub.northampton.ac.uk/2016/08/29/harvard-referencing-guide/
