Literature Perfect Paragraph

The research article had a slightly different structure. Rather than using an abstract, it began with a summary that provided the overview of the study. The introduction and proceeding paragraphs were not numbered, but were instead simply named, ‘Materials and methods’ and ‘Results’. There were no sub-paragraph headings either. This is most likely because the paragraphs in each section did not need to be organized as precisely as in the review paper. Additionally, the review paper had a significantly shorter introduction than the research paper, but this is a consistent pattern with other papers I have looked at in the past. As the review paper looks at multiple findings, it is more likely to be longer in overall length than a research paper.

            The in-text citations differed between the two texts. The review paper used citations without the author, while the research paper used citations including the author and publishing year. I noticed that the review paper cited over 170 papers. Therefore, it was not surprising to me that they did not cite the last name of every author. Overall, I learned that review articles seem to have a broader range of information regarding a field of research whereas research articles are more specific to one study.