Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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General Guidelines
• The BODY is 12 pt. Arial, Justified Alignment, Double space
• Spaces between sections – double spaced
• Spaces among paragraphs – double spaced
• Black ink, in short clean bond paper
• Margins
• 1.5” left margin (to allow space for binding)
• 1.0” right margin
• 1.0” top margin
• 1.0” bottom margin
• 2.7 Paging
• The page number should be placed on the upper right hand
corner of the page
Things to Consider:
Writing the Introduction
Problems/issues under study
Discussion of the overview of all variables
(with scientific theories)
Arguments and justification with
supporting literature (with hypothesis
testing)
Rationale (Significance)
Most Common Comments
• Provide strong arguments and rationale to
justify the need to conduct this study.
• What are the issues or challenges currently
facing by the respondents in order to pursue
this investigation?
Most Common comments
• Discuss the problems and issues faced by the
respondents that this study would like to
address.
• Provide theories, principles and concepts
related to the issue under study to make
relevant interpretation with scientific basis for
the findings.
Introduction
• Provides background information of the Marital/Domestic
problem for the research, so that the
reader is persuaded that it will be Violence Issue
useful/interesting.
• Provides the overview of the major Factors that Influence the
variables Domestic Violence
• Builds an argument for the research and
presents research question(s) and gaps Previous Studies and
from the literature Supporting Literature