Intro
This sentence is usually found at the very end of the Introduction and is what the paper aims to answer.
What is the thesis/research question?
This is the primary reason the Methods section must include enough detail for another researcher to follow the exact same steps.
What is replication?
This part of the Discussion tells readers how the study’s results relate to the original hypothesis or research question.
What is the interpretation of findings?
This section is crucial to read because it provides the “meat and potatoes” of the paper, and the more often you read it, the easier it becomes to understand.
What is the importance of reading the Results section?
This part of a figure labels the variables, categories, or units shown along the axes of a graph.
What are axis labels?
This information helps readers unfamiliar with a topic understand the context for the study before it is explained.
What is the theoretical background/background information?
These two types of variables describe what the researcher intentionally changes and what they observe as a result.
What are independent and dependent variables?
Often addressing limitations, this element highlights conditions that may weaken the generalizability or strength of a study’s conclusions.
What is the acknowledgment of study limitations?
In this section of a research paper, raw findings are summarized, statistical tests are reported, and data are presented without interpretation
What happens to data in the Results section?
This element uses symbols, colors, or line styles to differentiate multiple datasets within a figure.
What is the legend?
This term explains why the study is being conducted and why it matters, essentially setting up context for the study.
What is the problem statement?
These three types of research designs include options such as cross-sectional, longitudinal, experimental, cohort, case-control, correlational, qualitative, or mixed-methods.
What are three types of research studies?
Usually found near the end, this portion of the Discussion explains how the study’s results can inform future experiments or research directions.
What are the implications for future research?
These two sections differ because one focuses strictly on data and statistics, while the other explains what those numbers actually mean and why they matter.
How are the Results and Discussion sections different?
This is a brief sentence or paragraph that describes what a corresponding graph or table shows. (ex., Fig. 1. Lorem ipsum).
What is a figure caption?
This study argues that gender segregation begins early in college because men and women use different cognitive shortcuts when forming this important list of potential classes.
What is the consideration set?
To measure what students were willing to think about taking, researchers used every instance where a student clicked on this feature within the university’s course-search platform.
What is the course profile/page view?
According to M. Bauer, this is a major concern/limitation in using RNA for forensic purposes.
What is RNA degradation?
The study found that more than half of gender segregation in final enrollments comes from differences at this earlier decision-making stage.
What is the consideration (screening) stage?
Figure 2 shows that men’s likelihood of viewing a course peaks when the course is about 30% women, while women’s peaks closer to 60%—illustrating gender-divergent responses to this course attribute.
What is the course gender composition?
This is the purpose of M. Bauer’s RNA in Forensic Science review as stated in the Introduction.
To provide the reader with an overview of the present knowledge and recent developments to outline the practical applications of RNA techniques in forensic science.
As it is stated in M. Bauer’s article, this is one thing RNA can do in forensic application that DNA cannot, due to cells having unique RNA expressions, but the same DNA
What is identifying the type of body fluid or tissues?
Because gender stereotypes act as cognitive shortcuts under high information load, the authors conclude that segregation likely persists even before enrollment decisions—when students first engage in this cognitive narrowing process.
What is screening or forming the consideration set?
This is one example of RNA analysis in a forensic application.
What is determining cause/time of death, identifying bodily fluids, determining age of a wound/blood stains, functional status of cells/organs, and determining RNA quality?
Peer reviewers will often check that all bar graphs have this element that represents variability or uncertainty in the data.
What are error bars?