Lesson 10 Steps article writing. Article writing and the article writing format. Imrad and etc

Acknowledgments: here, you thank people who do not qualify for authorship but who helped you with the research or its analysis, reporting, and presentation
Statements: declarations of, for example, work contributed by each author, funding source/s, conflicts of interest (reasons for any perceived bias), ethics approval, whether the data can be accessed by others, any supplementary methods/results files online, and whether any of the work has been previously presented; these declarations are sometimes made on the submitted Title Page and may appear at the beginning or end of the published article
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IMRAD structure for research writing
2. Find a target journal early
Refer to the author guidelines of your target journal early on in the writing process. These guidelines explain the journal’s requirements for manuscript preparation, for example:• Word count of the main text• Word count and format of the abstract• Variations of IMRaD structure:o Methods may be at the end or combined with Resultso Results may be combined with Discussion
Methods, Results, and Discussion may all be combined as one or more sections, with different headings for different parts of the studyIMRaD section names (for example, Introduction, Background, or no heading for the first section of IMRaD)
Extra sections: some journals require a Literature Review or Related Work section between the Introduction and Methods; some require Conclusion and Future Work sections after the Discussion
Number and style of references
Number and formatting of illustrations and associated text, and placement of illustrations within the main text, at the end, or in separate files
What statements to include and if there are special online forms to complete
General formatting (such as double line spacing)
UK or US spelling
Using the free Edanz Journal Selector will help you find a suitable journal and its online author guidelines.
3. Use the “write” order
To increase your writing efficiency, use TA-MRDI order instead of TA-IMRaD. Otherwise, you may waste time at the start by writing an Introduction that is too long or unrelated to the rest of the paper.
The “write” order of TA-MRDI, with the Introduction written at the end, will allow you to build a focused academic argument and help convince the reader of the need for and importance of your study. The recommended order for writing your research paper is actually based on your illustrations and can be summarized in these 10 steps:
1. Preparation
Draft your illustrations, put them in a logical order
Summarize each illustration’s key point
Use the key points and notes from your initial reading to make a brief IMRaD outline to answer the questions: Why did you do the study? What did you do? What did you find? What does it all mean?
2. Title
Announce the most important feature of your research.
3. Abstract
Summarize the key messages of your IMRaD outline in the abstract; input text into the Edanz Journal Selector to find a target journal.
4. Methods
Describe the materials/samples, procedures, and analytical methods in the order of your illustrations to allow others to repeat your study.
5. Results
Finalize your illustrations and highlight their main features in the main text.
6. Discussion
Evaluate your results in the context of the published literature, identify strengths and weaknesses, draw conclusions, and include implications and future directions.
7. Introduction
Present enough information for readers to understand your study’s aim, design, conclusions, implications, and importance; the amount of background depends on the target journal readership (for example, generalists vs. specialists).
8. References, etc.
Prepare the References and any Acknowledgment/s and Statements.
9. Title
Finalize the Title.
10. Finally…the abstract again
Finalize the Abstract. The “write” order of TA-MRDI will allow you to save time and start writing even while you are still performing the research. As soon as you have analyzed your results, prepare the illustrations and make sure they have corresponding descriptions in the Methods section of the main text. The Methods are factual, recent, and familiar to you, so they should be relatively easy to describe.
In the main text of the Results, you highlight the main features of your data and illustrations, making sure to describe relationships between the data instead of just repeating what is already shown in the illustrations.
In the Discussion, you compare your findings with those already published, and you identify strengths and weaknesses of your research. In this way, you evaluate your results in the context of what is already known in your field, and you can draw conclusions and propose practical and conceptual implications and future research directions.
While you read the relevant literature, you can decide which published articles will help frame your research in the Introduction, especially if your study design and data are of a higher quality than those in the literature.After writing the Discussion, you will also have a clear idea of the key findings, variables, concepts, theories, and topics that need to be explained to the reader in the Introduction. By writing the Introduction last, you will provide readers with a logical and convincing rationale for your study and help them to understand the relevance and usefulness of your findings. Complying with the author guidelines of your target journal and being familiar with IMRaD and the “write” order of TA-MRDI will help you prepare your manuscript efficiently and completely.
Finally, after drafting your manuscript, remember to revise, edit, and proofread your manuscript. You’re well on your way to outperforming your competitio Original research papers usually use the IMRaD formula. This acronym includes the four main sections of a research paper, which answer four basic questions, as follows:
Introduction: Why did you do the study?
Methods: What did you do?
Results: What did you find? and…
Activity 3. Watch video and discus it. https://youtu.be/3jAAploBvV4?si=LV7wUVqNPYTZZ49c
Home task: choose article will be suitable and interesting to your groupmates. Use activities that are appropriate for your class, bearing in mind their level, ages, culture and interests. Practice to write the review.