title page is the first page
abstract is the second
the intro ought to be composed of three parts: (a) the stable context, or the sense of ongoing conversation in the field of public health today. here, you could use the berridge (2016) but you could also use some section from another article's introduction or conclusion, purposing that history or context in order to give your topic a way of fitting in with something bigger that's going on. remember, the key here is also to make sure that another researcher in the field would be interested in your topic. the key words and phrases here are
- interested
- distinction between topic and field
- ongoing conversation and
- something bigger that's going on now in public health
then there's (b) the gap, where you detail what the motive is for asking your research question is, that is, not in the sense that you just find it interesting, but why the field of public health in general or, more realistically, the sub-field of whatever you're doing actually has overlooked or misrepresented or discussed wrongly etc. some aspect of your topic. i would put this in the second paragraph of the intro but it's not required. but, if i were writing this paper, the intro would be two paragraphs. one for (a) and the other for (b), but in the second paragraph i would also put (c): that is, the research question itself. i would embed that question towards the end and put it in a single bullet point.
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