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