. The five required components are:
1. Identification of the specific issue that you’re researching (e.g. overcrowding of prisons leading to avoidable health complications and economic burden) 2. Research question(s) 3. Working Thesis, which should use sources to attempt to answer the Research question(s) 4. Roadmap of Research Paper’s structure (i.e. What issue are you writing about? How will you address it? What are some aspects you might cover or directions you might go in your paper? Etc.) 5. Works Cited with at least five sources (3 must be scholarly)