Article Structure
The following text is a very good recommendation by one anonymous reviewer:
In general, the abstract should contain the following points:
- Purpose
- Research questions/hypothesis
- Methods
- Findings
- Conclusions
- Recommendations.
The abstract should answer the following questions:
- Why did you do this study or project?
- What did you do, and how?
- What did you find?
- What do your findings mean?
- What are the advantages (of the method)?
- How well does it work?
A brief guideline on how to write a good introduction:
- Broad information on topic
- Previous research
- Narrower background information
- Need for study, research issue, research gap
- Focus of paper
- Hypothesis should come at end of introduction
- Summary of problem (selling point)
The literature review (either in introduction section or create a new section) is a critical look at the existing research that is significant to the work that you are carrying out. You need to summarize relevant research and evaluate the works, show the relationships between different works, and show how it relates to your work. In general, your literature review should:
- show how other researchers define words, concepts and identify hypothesis that can be studied in your work,
- identify areas of controversy in the literature
- formulate questions that require further research
- identify the gap in the knowledge of a particular subject
- show what is the strength and weakness of the previous research
- answer why you carried out the research
- answer what contribution your study be expected to make
- Show which work do you follow and how your work similar and differ from the others
- Overall 300-500 words