Writing a Scientific Research Report (IMRaD)学习笔记

参考资料：Writing a Scientific Research Report (IMRaD)

IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion)

How to Organize a Paper: The IMRaD Format

学习笔记：
Introduction

• why this research is important or necessary or important.

• Begin by describing the problem or situation that motivates the research.

• Move to discussing the current state of research in the field; then reveal a “gap” or problem in the field.

• Finally, explain how the present research is a solution to that problem or gap. If the study has hypotheses, they are presented at the end of the introduction.

Methods

• It includes information about your population, sample, methods, and equipment.
• they are written in past tense, and they use a lot of passive voice.

Results

• the Results section contains only the findings, not any explanation of or commentary on the findings.
• past tense

Discussion

• summarize your main findings, comment on those findings, and connect them to other research.
• You also discuss limitations of your study, and use these limitations as reasons to suggest additional, future research.

关于学术写作资料整理：
1.Purdue OWL:https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/paraphrase_exercises/index.html