20 Science Research Writing Th e third reason is that failing to provide a reference may indicate that you are not familiar with research in your area. Although Sentence 3 isn't part of the literature review (which comes later in the Introduction) it includes a citation reference. Before you write a research paper, you collect a lot of references, quotations and ideas from journals and the Internet, many of which you will mention at some point in the paper. When you are writing the Introduction, you need to ask yourself three questions: 1. Which of the research papers I have read should be mentioned somewhere in the Introduction? Th e selection of names and references in the Introduction is important, because they draw a research 'map' for the reader by indicating the key players in your fi eld and the progress or achievements so far. Th ese names and references give the reader a clear idea of where your research is located and how it is related to other work in the fi eld. 2. Which ones should be part of the background to the research (as in Sentence
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