1. Find and read documents and manage them with document management software. Generally speaking, a complete research begins with searching and reading literature. Through a lot of literature reading, you will have ideas about what to do (topics), how to do research (methods) and research hypotheses. Looking for literature, domestic schools are basically Baijia Chain +google scholar, and foreign schools are all school libraries +google scholar. Then the literature management software recommended Mendeley.

2. Write a proposal. It is written in 1, including intro (including assumptions), methods and data analysis (how to analyze data is expected). If this is well written, the formal article will save a little effort. As for how to write intro, please see the picture at the end of the answer.

3. Examination and approval by the Ethics Committee. Not all subjects have to be taken, and this is particularly trivial in China, which is almost equal to nothing, so I have seen studies that violate research ethics. For ethics committees, see Wikipedia: Institutional Review Committee.

4. do pre-research. Collect data from small samples (how small the sample is, different disciplines, different research topics) and pre-analyze the data according to the previous ideas. If the trend is consistent with the hypothesis, continue the formal research. If there is no trend or the trend is contrary to the hypothesis, look for the literature again to see if there are any factors you missed; Or improve research methods (data collection methods)

5. Formal research and data collection. In this process, it is also possible to conduct phased data analysis.

6. Data analysis. Firstly, the method envisaged in the proposal is used for analysis. If it is easy to get the results that conform to the hypothesis or partially conform to the hypothesis, you can start writing. If there is no result, slowly mine the data and try various methods to analyze it. There may or may not be new discoveries.

7. improve intro according to the data results. If you have written a plan before, this time is perfect. If you don't write, you must start writing again. Generally speaking, what is more important is the relationship between the variables used in the study (rather than the variables themselves) and what studies have been involved before. In this step, from the beginning of data collection to this step, the project may often receive the project of the tutor. At the same time, look for the format requirements and articles of the magazine to be submitted, imitate the format and style, and write according to the format requirements.

8. Complete the article in the order of method, result, discussion and summary. Methods and results are best written. Write the results according to the assumed structure; When you look at intro, the discussion is based on the results, but the structure is reversed from intro, depending on the number at the end of the answer.

9. Finish the first draft, and then prepare to revise it at least five times. As for English, it's not as difficult as I thought. When I first drafted it, I wanted to write something. It is a complete sentence, and the first sentence and the last sentence can be connected. Change slowly after the first draft, especially when writing for the first time.

If you really find it difficult to start, write the methods and results first, then introduce them and then discuss them. However, it is not recommended to do so after proficiency. One is a little immoral, and the other is that the quality of the articles written in this way may be slightly worse than that written in sequence.