Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Course 2
Course 2
Course 2
manuscript
The IMRAD structure
• Introduction
• Why did you start?
• Methods
• What did you do?
• Results
• What did you find?
• Discussion
• What does it all mean?
Why?
• Make it easier for the reader to find what s/he
wants rapidly
Linear construction to follow one idea
throughout the manuscript
• Introduction
• What was known before, the local context
• Methods
• The methods used to generate the finding
• Results
• The facts and figures
• Discussion
• Integration of all elements making the case
• Conclusion
• The point made
• Recommendation
• What the point calls in terms of action
Argument matrix template to articulate the
ideas of a manuscript
Ideas Intro Methods Results Discussion
Idea #2
Idea #3
Scientific manuscript writing
Writing the Title Page and Abstract
Anatomy of a Research Paper
Individuals responsible
for data collection are not
justifiable authors.
Authors
Each author must have participated sufficiently in the research represented by the
report to take public responsibility for the content.
An author must be able to defend the content of the report, including the data and
other evidence and the conclusions based on them.
Generally speaking, the individual responsible for the majority of the work is the first
author.
Generally speaking, the
individual responsible for
the majority of the work is Authors are then listed in order of
the first author. contribution
Corresponding Author
The title page should give the full name and For the corresponding author, list:
affiliation of each author and specify which • His or her full name (including middle initial)
• Keywords make your paper searchable and The keywords cannot be picked simply at
ensure that you get more citations. the author’s discretion; instead, they must
Therefore, it is important to include the most be terms that appear in the National
relevant keywords that will help other Library of Medicine’s list of Medical Subject
authors find your paper. Headings
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.
html).
Abstract
• Introduction Why?
• Materials and Methods How?
• Results What?
• Discussion So What?
Abstract: Writing Guidelines
Instructions to follow when writing an abstract:
• Don’t write over the required word limit (when • Double check every piece of
specified, i.e. 250 words) data