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How to Use EBSCOhost Academic Search Ultimate: Peer Reviewed Article

How to Analyze a Peer Reviewed Article

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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

 

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Structure of a Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Article

What is IMRaD?

IMRaD is an acronym for Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. It describes the format for the sections of a research report. Please see below for the breakdown of each section:

Introduction
  • Literature Review consisting of previous studies
  • Presents the gap/problem and calls for new research 
  • Solution to bridge the gap/problem (i.e. generates a hypothesis for the study)
Method 
  • How and where the research was conducted (survey, interviews, etc.)
  • Information about participants

Results
  • Presents data/findings of the study
Discussion
  • Interpretation of the data and results 
  • Implications or limitations to the study or field