Steps_WritingPaper.pdf

The following steps are useful to write effective research paper:
1. Topic Selection: Select a topic from the various issues discussed in the class in the field of
Comparative Economic Systems. You may also select your choice of topic from the issues you
have already addressed in weekly discussion Questions.

2. Make sure the topic your have selected is relevant to the subject and does fit to your areas of
interest in the subject.

3. The title of the topic must make sense and gives your audience a clear idea about the issue and
focus of your research paper.

4. Your Topic selection is your first step. Once you are settled with your topic (you may also
change or modify the topic title after you finish your writing depending on what you have come
up with your end results of the term paper), the following general organizational structure of your
paper should follow:

-Introduction: includes your reason for the interest in the topic, its relevance with some
examples of the issues, quotes from other writers in the same issue, importance and objective of
your paper, organizational structure of your paper for the rest of the sections of your paper such as
Literature review, Methodology of research approach, analysis, and conclusion.

-Literature Review: This section should include your study on this area published in different
literature. You may sub-divide this section into different categories of areas you have studied and
summarize the findings in your own critical words. Providing proper citations are very important
in this section.

-Method of Analysis: This section will include the appropriate approach of your analysis of the
paper in the next section. This approach could be qualitative, quantitative, or both depending on
your time and resource constraints to take the right approach. This methodology will clearly state
the model structure you will be using and how you will collect data/information with sources
(primary or secondary and why). You will also justify your approach you have taken, given other
alternatives you could have.

-Analysis: Based on your approach mentioned in the previous section, this section will be main
contents of your paper. This section will cover your data/information, analytical approach, tables,
graphs, etc.

-Conclusion: Your findings in the Analysis section will give you clue to draw the conclusion
very briefly, which will also include your own remarks explaining how you have fulfilled your
objectives in your Introduction Section at the outset.

The above section will be followed by your list of references.

The abstract (the summary of the entire paper) should be written after finishing your paper and
must be placed on Page 1 of your paper. However, Your paper must have a cover page followed
by table of contents before the page 1.