5 pages, single spacing.
Structuring your research article
- Abstract: You
will most likely write this last. It needs to be a summary of the whole
article, just the high points so readers can know ahead of time what to
expect. - Introduction: Begin
by stating why the topic is of interest to the field and how it may
advance our understanding of a particular aspect. Describe aim and
purpose of the work. This section should prepare the reader for the
following sections, both the lit-review and the actual research. - Literature Review: This
section will be done as a stand alone assignment and once you have
incorporated the feedback and improvements recommended by your
instructor it can be inserted here with appropriate transition sentences
at the beginning and end. Don’t forget these!! - Materials and Methods: Although
you are using an online tool to run your experiment, you need to fully
describe and explain each step in the process of conducting this
research project. Your unique factors that were used and how the
parameters were established and monitored. - Results: This
is the actual product your generated by conducting the research. This
should be presented in two formats, written and graphic. Since you have
multiple factors that you manipulated in running the experiment, result
for each trial need to be reported separately. Graphs and tables need to
have titles, numbers and labels for scales, axis and lines or symbols
used. (see – Cargill, M. (2013). Research articles and structures. In P.
O’Connor (Ed.), Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps (11-16).
Discussion of the results: You
should be able to draw some information from the results you reported.
What does it mean when you change a particular variable and then the
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