Choose a subject. Read one or two articles to understand your subject. Make a scratch preliminary outline. Write your first draft. Revise the text of your draft and write an introduction and conclusion.
Place footnotes and bibliography items into the draft.
Polish and finalize your draft to end up in the format required by your professor. A brief summary that gives the essential points of a book or a periodical article. An annual yearbook of statistics and other information. A collection of poems, shortstories, or essays by one or several authors. Material that supplements the text of a book, but need not be essential to the main text.