Articles generally follow this structure:
- Abstract: Summary of the whole article
- Introduction: Why they did the research
- Methodology: How they did the research
- Results: What happened
- Discussion: What the results mean
- Conclusion: What they learned
- References: Whose research they cited
Should you read the article in order? Not necessarily. Here is the order we recommend:
- Abstract
- Discussion / Conclusion
- Introduction
- Methodology / Results
