Scholarly articles report on the results of research studies and are usually reviewed by experts in a process known as peer review before they are published in journals. Journals are scholarly publications containing articles written by researchers, professors, and other experts and are intended for an academic or technical audience.
Original / empirical articles are based on an experiment or other sort of study, such as interviews, surveys, literacy analysis. In the sciences and social sciences, this type of article will have a methodology section that tells how the experiment was set up and conducted, a results or discussion section, and usually a conclusion section. In the arts and humanities, articles will read more like essays.
In describing the purpose of their study, authors will present a mini literature review to discuss how previous research has led up to their original research project.
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Review articles are written to bring together and summarize the results/conclusions from multiple original research articles/studies. This type of article will not usually have a methodology section, and they generally have very extensive bibliographies.
There are several types.
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