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Strategies For Preparing English Manuscript: A Road To Publication in The International-Indexed And/Or Reputable Journals of Arts & Humanities
Strategies For Preparing English Manuscript: A Road To Publication in The International-Indexed And/Or Reputable Journals of Arts & Humanities
Twenty companies were selected for this investigation. The interviews were recorded on audiotape.
LANGUAGE OF ABSTRACT
Conclusions
(in simple present or past tense)
1. These results suggest that ...
5. On the basis of the results of this research, it can be concluded that ...
Here you introduce the problems List all major items used to carry
and questions you addressed in out your experiment. How did you
conducting your experiment (i.e., set up your experiment? How
why did you do it?). Again, you many experimental groups did
must make a statement which you have? How did you measure
encompasses your hypothesis. You the effect you studied? These and
may also want to state the any other methods should be
question(s) you are trying to explicitly stated or referenced.
answer. Address previous Again, anything that is different
experimental results that from previously published methods
proceeded your work. should be explicitly stated.
4. Results 5. Discussion
Here is where you show the data that In this section, you should
you collected. Results are usually
shown in tables or graphs (figures). All
critically examine your results
Figures that are presented must have and interpret the trends in the
a caption or a title placed above it data. Do your results support
that describes its contents. Tables your hypothesis? Were your
and Figures are numbered
consecutively throughout a lab report questions answered? What
or scientific paper. The title should new questions come to mind
give enough information to allow the after examining the results?
table to be understandable apart
from the text. You should also write a
brief statement about the trends you
see in your results.
FORMALITY IN ENGLISH
Formal English
1. Longer/more complex sentence
Punctuation, proper grammar, and correct sentence structure are very
important.
• A formal sentence you might see in an • A less formal way to express the same
academic journal: idea: