IMRaD(C) Outline

• Introduction
  • Identify subject
  • What relevant information is known about the subject (lit. review)?
  • What something (not everything) unknown (lit. review)?
  • What's a discrete question that addresses that knowledge gap (research question)?
  • (possibly hypothesis)
  • What's the answer to that question (thesis)?
• Methods
  • "To learn X, we did Y" (Schimel 60)
  • What are the reproducible steps you went through to get your answer (method design)?
• Results
  • What came out of doing your methods?
• Discussion
  • What might those results mean? How would you interpret them? What are the implications to the subject?
• Conclusion
  • Recap
  • (maybe limitations, if they aren't elsewhere)
  • next steps/where the work might go from here