TIPS ON WRITING YOUR RESEARCH

1. ABSTRACT: This should be between 400-600 words. Identify relevant journals for submission of your research.
2. INTRODUCTION: This should be between 2,200- 2,600 words. It should include terminology, why did you use the term intimate partner violence instead of domestic violence, legislation, statistics, how big an issue is this, relevance to social work practice, backgrounds, aims and objectives. You can use sub headings.
3. Method: This should be between 2,000 – 2,200 words (systematic literature review using qualitative data) searches from electronic database. Criteria are very important. Reason for choosing this method for your research. Ensure you can justify the decision you have made at each stage of using your chosen method. Clarify each stage and explain the process you have gone through. Remember age bracket you are using and date ranges (last 1o years).

4. FINDINGS: This should be 1,000- 1,200 words

5. ANALYSIS: This should be about 2,000 – 2,200 words. It should include ethical issues, validity, differences in articles you have used, what did you find?
6. CONCLUSION: This should be about 500 – 700 words. It should include the relevance of this research to social work and recommendation for future practice.

You can do a table of inclusion as appendix. Credible data with number of teenagers/young people witnessing intimate partner violence.
You can bring in global statistics of children witnessing intimate partner violence and its UK statistics.