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Dr.R.Narayanasamy
Retired Professor (HAG)
Department of Production Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli -620 015
Tamil Nadu India
Typical structure of a research paper
Introduction
 State why the problem you address is important
 State what is lacking in the current knowledge
 State the objectives of your study or the research question
Methods
 Describe the context and setting of the study
 Specify the study design
 Describe the sampling strategy Describe the intervention (if applicable)
 Identify the main study variables
 Describe data collection instruments and procedures
 Outline analysis methods
Results
 Report on data collection and recruitment (response rates, etc.)
 Describe participants (demographic, clinical condition, etc.)
 Present key findings with respect to the central research question
 Present secondary findings (secondary outcomes, subgroup analyses, etc.)
Discussion
 State the main findings of the study
 Discuss the main results with reference to previous research
 Discuss policy and practice implications of the results
 Analyse the strengths and limitations of the study Offer perspectives for future
work
Common mistakes seen in manuscripts submitted to this journal
 The research question is not specified
 The stated aim of the paper is tautological (e.g. ‘The aim of this paper is to
describe what we did’) or vague (e.g. ‘We explored issues related to X’)
 The structure of the paper is chaotic (e.g. methods are described in the Results
section)
 The manuscripts does not follow the journal’s instructions for authors
 The paper much exceeds the maximum number of words allowed
 The Introduction is an extensive review of the literature
 Methods, interventions and instruments are not described in sufficient detail
Results are reported selectively (e.g. percentages without frequencies, P-values
without measures of effect)
 The same results appear both in a table and in the text
 Detailed tables are provided for results that do not relate to the main research
question In the Introduction and Discussion, key arguments are not backed up
by appropriate references
 References are out of date or cannot be accessed by most readers
 The Discussion does not provide an answer to the research question
 The Discussion overstates the implications of the results and does not
acknowledge the limitations of the study
 The paper is written in poor English
References
• How to Write a Good Research Paper - From title to references From submission to
acceptance - Presented by: Dolors Alsina, Ph.D. Executive Publisher Elsevier, Amsterdam
Shanghai, China November 2014
• Editorial - Writing a research article: advice to beginners, International Journal for Quality
in Health Care 2004; Volume 16, Number 3: pp. 191–192

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How to write a research paper before you start by Dr. R. Narayanasamy, Retd. Prof, NIT Trichy

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  • 28. Typical structure of a research paper Introduction  State why the problem you address is important  State what is lacking in the current knowledge  State the objectives of your study or the research question Methods  Describe the context and setting of the study  Specify the study design  Describe the sampling strategy Describe the intervention (if applicable)  Identify the main study variables  Describe data collection instruments and procedures  Outline analysis methods
  • 29. Results  Report on data collection and recruitment (response rates, etc.)  Describe participants (demographic, clinical condition, etc.)  Present key findings with respect to the central research question  Present secondary findings (secondary outcomes, subgroup analyses, etc.) Discussion  State the main findings of the study  Discuss the main results with reference to previous research  Discuss policy and practice implications of the results  Analyse the strengths and limitations of the study Offer perspectives for future work
  • 30. Common mistakes seen in manuscripts submitted to this journal  The research question is not specified  The stated aim of the paper is tautological (e.g. ‘The aim of this paper is to describe what we did’) or vague (e.g. ‘We explored issues related to X’)  The structure of the paper is chaotic (e.g. methods are described in the Results section)  The manuscripts does not follow the journal’s instructions for authors  The paper much exceeds the maximum number of words allowed  The Introduction is an extensive review of the literature
  • 31.  Methods, interventions and instruments are not described in sufficient detail Results are reported selectively (e.g. percentages without frequencies, P-values without measures of effect)  The same results appear both in a table and in the text  Detailed tables are provided for results that do not relate to the main research question In the Introduction and Discussion, key arguments are not backed up by appropriate references  References are out of date or cannot be accessed by most readers  The Discussion does not provide an answer to the research question  The Discussion overstates the implications of the results and does not acknowledge the limitations of the study  The paper is written in poor English
  • 32. References • How to Write a Good Research Paper - From title to references From submission to acceptance - Presented by: Dolors Alsina, Ph.D. Executive Publisher Elsevier, Amsterdam Shanghai, China November 2014 • Editorial - Writing a research article: advice to beginners, International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2004; Volume 16, Number 3: pp. 191–192