Basic Structure for Paper Writing

Basic Structure for Paper Writing

▸ Title (<10 words): The shorter, the better. Must accurately use the keywords that best describe your work.

► Keywords (<8 terms): These are the essential concepts that your artic e will discuss. A reader who is likely to search for these keywords must find your article relevant.

► Abstract (200-250 words): This is the first stop for the reader in your article. It must accurately summarize your problem statement/case study, what your solution is and how it adds value both qualitatively and quantitative y.

> Introduction: Describe the history and motivation for the problem/case study. Elaborate on the improvements, innovations, or solutions (literature survey) chronologically. How is your idea/approach different and relevant? In the end, describe how the rest of the article is organized.

▸ Methodology: Here you present your idea or approach or experiment in a detailed manner. This section is the central piece of novelty which your article offers. Remember to use a logical flow in this section so that there is enough clarity for the readers to understand.

► Results and Discussion: Here you provide the scientific evidence in support of your idea or approach. These can be tables, trends, pie charts, histograms, correlation plots, etc. Discuss them individually and explain them, draw inferences and let the readers know how it supports your idea or approach as a nove advancement. Also, compare with state-of-art practices.

► Conclusion: This section tells about the outcome/final inference of your experiment and the impact it has in respect of your problem statement. You are also welcome to give future directions of study your work opens to other researchers.

► References: it contains the description of the bibliographic references that you used in your article.

(Dr Debanshu Ratha, Ph.D. IIT Bombay)