Literature draft

Throughout reading the two articles, I noticed many differences in the style and structure of the writing. The review paper began with an abstract explaining the objectives of this paper; this surprised me because I assumed that a summary of a review paper would sound redundant. However, it is helpful to start the paper with an abstract to prepare the reader for the extensive information regarding spider-ant associations that follows. After the abstract was a heading for the introduction, and this began with a number. The number system for paragraphs is useful as it helps the reader identify the paragraphs and sub-paragraph topics. As for the research article, the abstract was instead named the summary, which provided similar information regarding the journal. The introduction and proceeding paragraphs were not numbered, but instead stated as ‘materials and methods’ and ‘results’. This was different than the review article, but just as easy to understand. I did note that the introduction for the research paper was significantly longer than the introduction of the review paper.