A research article describes an original study that the author(s) conducted themselves. The main focus of the article is to describe the theoretical approach, a hypothesis, methods to test the hypothesis, and results of the authors' own research experiment.
The anatomy of a research article includes the 7 sections below:
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction/Background
- Method - is the study quantitative or qualitative? surveys, questionnaires, interviews, interventions (as in a clinical trial)
- Sample & Setting - what is the population?
- Results - what data was collected?
- Discussion/Conclusion - what do the authors conclude from the results? what is the significance of the study's findings?
