Reference

One important part with a study is to reference your sources. It is not just to give credit where credit is due, but also to reduce repetition of known information, or avoid explaining redundant or complex structure that has little to no value for the paper itself.

What is hard is to find good references. You need a few, very rarely a whole article itself. My study for instance uses only two paragraphs as my core, and one page for the overall structure. Of course this is insufficient to glue the whole study, as I need more background data and related studies either directly or indirectly.

It is a bit difficult to find anything related to my paper, so I need to go for paragraphs that may help me reduce and prove my research question, but also assist my experiment and its result. This sounds like the chicken and egg problem, so I will have to make-believe at first and then later fill in the missing gaps, or just remove those parts altogether if it cannot hold its own weight.

I skimmed through Google Scholar and found plenty of articles having some relation to my study, but I need to investigate further to find a significant relation before I can reference them.