Article_Structure

Research papers are broadly divided into empirical and theoretical papers.
Empirical Research Paper
• The author reports on his or her own study.
• The author will have collected data to answer a research question or address an issue/problem at hand.
Theoretical Research Papers
• The author develops and presents his or her own new theory about a problem.
• The author’s arguments depend entirely on theoretical research in available scholarly literature in the form of articles in scientific journals, official documents, books, newspapers and so forth).

An academic paper has a clear structure and, as a rule, consists of the following parts:
Title
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Literature review
Methods and materials
Results
Discussion
Conclusions and prospects for further research
References

IMRAD format

Introduction
An introduction is intended to provide background information on the topic of the article and explain the purpose of the research.
First of all, the author should state the general topic of the study.
The author also identifies problems which had not been solved in previous studies and which this article is intended to solve.

An introduction must clearly state:
the aim and object of the author’s research.
To formulate an aim, one has to answer the question: “What do I want to create as a result of the research?”
This result can be a new methodology, classification, algorithm, structure, a new version of the existing technology, a learner’s guide, etc.
The purpose is usually formulated with the help of the following verbs: reveal, identify, form, prove, verify, determine, etc.

An introduction must clearly state:
the relevance and novelty.
The relevance of the topic is the degree of its importance today under current circumstances.
It is the ability of the results to be used to solve quite significant theoretical and practical problems.
Novelty is what distinguishes the result of this work from the results obtained by other authors.