Structure is the skeleton of the paper. A clear and tidy skeleton will greatly help readers understand the content of the article-readers are most concerned about reading the article quickly. Unclear articles, even if the content is valuable, can be boring. Articles with clear structure can get a high impression from reviewers, and facts also prove that good articles have clear structure.

The basic structure of this paper is as follows:

Introduction-Literature

Review-experiment/method-result-discussion-conclusion.

Adjacent parts here can sometimes be merged. For example, some papers include literature review in the introduction, and some papers put discussion and conclusion together. But even under the same subtitle, it should appear in different paragraphs. For research involving experiments, experiments/methods generally introduce the relevant contents of experiments. For articles without experiments, such as social science articles, many use second-hand data, so it is necessary to introduce the data sources and processing methods.

The papers mentioned here include dissertations and periodical papers. The difference is that there may be more than one argument in the doctoral thesis. Doctoral thesis can be put aside while talking about the main line of research; However, a journal paper can only talk about one argument, and all branches and leaves should be cut off, which is also the reason why journal papers should be limited in length. Branches and leaves that are often cut from one piece of paper can be used as the trunk of another piece of paper or multiple pieces of paper.

Let's take the experimental paper as an example.

The introduction part needs to introduce the research background, what is the research problem, why this problem is important and what methods have been used. Then, the next step is to introduce and evaluate the methods used in detail, which is the second part of the paper, literature review. Introduction and literature review can also be called historical exposition.

Next, the third part, experiment, needs to introduce the work carried out in this study, which must be very concise so that other researchers can repeat this work. Operations that are difficult to explain can be solved by drawing pictures. In fact, this is the core part of the study, and the right or wrong of operation and raw materials is related to the value of the whole study.

Results The fourth part is to sort out and report the results of the third part, which is only an objective statement with as few comments as possible.

The fifth part, the discussion, is a part of personal understanding and an interpretation of the research results. The sixth part is the conclusion of this study. Usually in this part, the author can review and summarize the whole paper except the experimental details, and then give a conclusion. After all, it is easy for readers to fall into the details of the experiment and forget the overall situation.

At the end of the paper, there is usually a thank you, which is not necessary. Usually in this link, the author can thank the research fund for support, tutor guidance and peer discussion. After confirmation, it is a reference, which is a reference. References are actually ignored by many authors. Experienced researchers will pay close attention to this part. In a sense, it is the raw material of paper. If all the documents used by a researcher come from encyclopedias, news or predatory journals, then the quality of the research is questionable, because the quality of the cornerstone is not good enough. References are sometimes followed by appendices. The content of the appendix is usually to help readers understand the paper. In addition to the appendix, the paper can exist independently. With the appendix, the support of the paper will be stronger.