Parts of an Article
Which section would identify, in detail, the sample (n) size, how the authors operationalized their concepts and generally how they conducted their research?
What is Methods/Methodology?
What section of a scholarly journal article contains a summary of previous research, what other researchers have found, and what questions still remain?
What is the Lit/Literature Review.
If you need to find out as much as you can about a scholarly journal article in the least amount of time, where will you look?
What is the abstract?
How is a scholarly journal article organized?
What is Abstract, Introduction/Lit Review, Methods, Results or Findings, Discussion/Conclusion, References?
If the literature review is not labeled separately with its own heading, where will it be located in a scholarly journal article?
In the Introduction
In what section of a scholarly journal article do authors talk about what their findings mean and the significance of their findings? (This answers the "so what" question.)
What is the Discussion/Conclusion.
Where will the research question (RQ) or Hypothesis (H) be located in a scholarly journal article?
What is after the introduction and lit review but before the Methods/Methodology?
Where will you find straight facts and data that have not been interpreted by the authors? (This is also where you might find graphs, charts, raw numbers.)
What are Results/Findings?
In which section of a scholarly journal article are you most likely to find the following statement? "Our findings, that discourses of "community and freedom" are superseding discourses of "romance and control" are significant because they imply a change in how we relate to one another in romantic relationships due to demands of being constantly available. . ."
What is the Discussion section?
In which section of a scholarly journal article are you most likely to find the following statement? "What we aimed to do in this study was to understand the issues people in romantic relationships experienced when simultaneously trying to maintain contact with non-present others while spending time with co-present romantic partners and how they attempted to make sense of those issues."
What is the Introduction section?