While your final capstone can take other forms (e.g., digital media project or a policy paper for a local government), many students submit a standard research paper. The papers are formatted with eight main sections plus two optional parts (in parentheses):
- Summary /Abstract
- (Acknowledgements)
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions & Recommendations
- Literature Cited
- (Appendices).
Alternatively, with approval, you can use the format required by a competitive, peer-reviewed journal in your professional discipline; thereby, making your capstone project publication ready.