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    The IMRAD format is commonly used for scientific writing and divides papers into Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections to allow experts to quickly scan thousands of articles and find relevant information. It presents the title, authors' contact information and an abstract summarizing the paper at the beginning, followed by the body with the Introduction outlining previous studies and hypotheses, Methods describing procedures, Results reporting data without interpretation, and Discussion analyzing results and comparing to other studies.

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    Imrad: The Format For Scientific Writing

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    Naveen S Nair
    The IMRAD format is commonly used for scientific writing and divides papers into Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections to allow experts to quickly scan thousands of articles and find relevant information. It presents the title, authors' contact information and an abstract summarizing the paper at the beginning, followed by the body with the Introduction outlining previous studies and hypotheses, Methods describing procedures, Results reporting data without interpretation, and Discussion analyzing results and comparing to other studies.

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    IMRAD

    The Format for Scientific Writing

    What is IMRAD?
    Title Contact info Abstract, keywords Body of paper:
    Introduction Materials and Methods Results and Discussion

    Acknowledgements Literature Cited

    Why is it used?
    Allows experts to rapidly scan through thousands of journal articles to find relevant material. Allows readers to quickly find what interests them.

    Title, Contact info, Abstract, Keywords

    Contact info of authors Abstract summary of IMRAD Keywords used for search engines

    Introduction
    Previous studies Question, Hypothesis

    Materials and Methods


    What was done With what How

    Results
    Data: Figures and tables No interpretation

    Discussion
    Reasons for results Compare with other studies Future studies

    Acknowledgements Literature Cited


    Funding Reviewers

    Primary sources

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