Hello. This lecture is about research paper structure. We're going to talk a little bit today about how to put your research paper together in terms of how it's arranged. This paper should be similar to what you've learned in 1301. The essay you probably learned was the five paragraph or five section thesis essay where you have the introduction first, three sub topic paragraphs or sections, and a closing. In your essays for 1301 you're probably doing somewhere between five to 800 words. So you could've gotten away with five separate paragraphs, you may have had one or two paragraphs per sub topic. Well, the research paper, of course, is a longer paper, and therefore you may have multiple paragraphs for each section. So for example, for an 1800 word essay, you would have probably one or two introductory paragraphs, two or three paragraphs per sub topic And then one paragraph, maybe two paragraphs for your conclusion. So you would probably end up with a paper that's anywhere between six, eight, nine paragraphs between nine paragraphs and up. Now in the introduction of your research paper, you need the following elements. You need the introduction and in the introduction, you need the hook, which is a story, a purpose setting question, a startling statistic, a joke--jokes you don't want to use too often--or an anecdote. Then you're going to have your thesis statement. Then you're going to have a preview of your subtopics, which your preview is just a sentence listing your subtopics and then your conclusion to your paragraph. It's typically a transition into your sub topics. And you're going to have your three sub topics each sub topic you are going to start off with your topic sentence listing the main point of your paper, or thesis. Review your subtopics and revisit your hook. Okay. Now what I would suggest you do is, look at models of research papers online. And the best place to look for this, I think is a Purdue's owl website. If you Google the word owl O.W.L., and then also in the same search write the word "Purdue" PURDUE--the university--you'll be brought to their online writing lab's website and on that you will find examples of a research paper. We'll talk more about OWL's website when we come to citation format.