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Scientific journals specify the format, or , that submitted articles are to follow.
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The author name(s) and affiliation(s) appear on the of the research manuscript.
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The first two or three words of the title are used for the .
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The is a concise summary of the paper.
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A brief review of the relevant literature on the topic is provided in the to the research paper.
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The only section of a paper that does not include a heading indicating the name of the section is the .
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If your study uses an unconventional or complex design, you may include a separate subsection in the method section to describe it.
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If your study made use of questionnaires rather than laboratory equipment, you would include a subsection instead of an apparatus subsection.
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Demographic information about participants is usually presented in the subsection.
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The subsection describes precisely what was done throughout the course of the study.
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The purpose of the section is to report what was found.
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In the discussion section, you your results and .
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Any articles or books cited in the body of the paper must be listed in the section.
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can be used to illustrate the design and materials of the study and to present data.
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Graphs, drawings, and photographs are three commonly used types of .
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The of a graph tells the reader what each of the points and lines on the graph means.
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When there are three or more authors of a paper, you can save effort in writing the names by using the convention for the second and subsequent citations of the article.
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sentences follow the theme sentence and support and elaborate the theme.
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If you use someone else’s words or ideas without proper citation, you are guilty of .
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The two types of paper presentations are presentations and .







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