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I think the methods behind what we do in academia is what determines their quality and success. This blog includes posts about academic methods, with the aim of helping students and colleagues develop their own successful methods for academic work.

A Study of Journal Article Structure

2/21/2023

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I studied journal article structure by looking at Jessica Calarco’s outline of a journal article (located here as of 21 Feb 2023: http://www.jessicacalarco.com/teaching-resources-1/2019/8/30/article-writing-101 ) and reverse outlining a set of articles by someone in my field.
 
What I found was that, for the 7 articles I coded, Calarco’s outline was never exactly applied. Some articles ranged further from the outline in particular sections. Sometimes they followed some of the outline and neglected others. Sometimes they did most of the things but did them in a different order.
 
After doing this, I know what usually happens in each section (at least across these 7 articles). Given this study, I came up with an alternative outline to Calarco's.

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