Your research paper requires that you write a research proposal. To do it, you need to: 1) identify a topic that interests you; 2) review a few research articles published about this topic; 3) propose a study of your own to study what is still needed to understand the topic; 4) identify a research tool for doing your study, for example, a survey or interviews or both; 5) explain step by step how you would conduct the survey (assuming you choose survey as a research tool); you need to compose a complete survey questionnaire; 6) discuss hypothetically what outcomes would be like if you did conduct the study start to finish; 7) discuss and conclude what kind of significance your proposed study would bring to our understanding of this particular topic.
