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This document provides an outline structure for a research paper, including sections for the abstract, introduction, literature review, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions. The introduction presents background information and identifies gaps in current knowledge. The literature review summarizes relevant previous works and identifies limitations. The methods section describes the study design, participants, variables, and analyses. The results section reports key findings and unexpected results. The discussion section interprets the results in relation to previous studies and addresses limitations. Finally, the conclusions restate important findings and implications, and recommend areas for future research.
Structure of an_article
- 1. Structure by Adrian Wallwork (English for Writing - Highlight benefits of the method Research Papers) Title: Results 1.- Making sense to the reviewer 42.- What did I find? 2.- Easily located by a search 43.- What did I not find? 3.- Attracting the right readers 44.- What did I find that I was not expecting 4.- Short tofind? 5.- Not to vague and not too specific Discussion Abstract: 45.- Data support what one wants to 6.- Why did I carry out this project? demonstrate 7.- Why am I writing this paper? 46.- My findings and others’ (compare, and 8.- What were my results? contrast) 9.- What was new compared to previous 47.- Personal interpretation of findings research? 48.- Other possible interpretation 10.- What are the applications of my findings? 49.- Limitations: Other factors affecting, 11.- What are the conclusions and reporting things that might be invalid findings recommendations? 50.- Possible flaws in experiment 51.- Contribution of my interpretation Introduction: 52.- External validity generalization 12.- Background 53.- Implications and application of findings 13.- Current knowledge in the field 54.- Further research for me or and others. 14.- How findings of the paper are an advancement Conclusions 15.- Meaning and motivation of the study 55.- Revisit of the most important findings 16.- How the topic is developed 56.- Final judgment on the importance and 17.- Roadmap to follow (line of the argument) significance those findings and their 18.- What’s important for the readers to know application and impact, along with possible applications to other areas. Literature review: 57.- An indication of the limitations of the 19.- What are the seminal works on this topic study 20.- What progress has been made since these 58.- Suggestions for improvement in possible seminal works relation to the limitations. 21.- What are the most relevant recent works? 59.- Recommendations for future work 22.- What is the best order to mention these 60.- Recommendations for policy changes works? 23.- What are the achievements and limitations of these recent works? 24.- What gap do these limitations reveal 25.- How does my work intend to fill this gap? Methods 26.- What was done? 27.- Who did it? 28.- What hypotheses? 29.- Where was the study carried 30.- What characteristics the location has? 31.- What variable was measured and why? 32.- Assumptions 33.- Equipment 34.- Protocol 35.- Analyses 36.- Software 37.- Difficulties 38.- Comparisons of methods to others 39.- How to justify aims and choices - It’s somebody else’s method - Start with: To validate to attempt 40.- Consequences of choices and actions: - An evaluation - The next step 41.- Points to make in the method section: - Overview of the method of how it relates to the literature - What was done and justify choices - Precautions taken - Limitations