Structure of Scientific Literature - Part 1

It is crucial to recognize and understand the different styles of scientific writing when reading articles, integrating concepts, and conducting research. The two articles assigned are of two different types: one classic research and one mini-review. The research article, “Neighbor Relations within a Community of Epiphytic Lichens and Bryophytes,” has a more formal layout than the mini-review article, “Describing and quantifying interspecific interactions: a commentary on recent approaches.” The research article is divided up by formal sections: abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. In contrast, the mini-review article is divided up by different questions, such as “why should we try to construct models of communities?” and “if press or pulse methods could be applied, could we build a predictive model?” The mini-review article has an abstract of its own, but the information within it is different than that of the research article. The abstract of the research article is of a singular experimental nature, while the abstract of the mini-review article addresses multiple research articles and their findings.