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#1 Research Articles > Original Articles & Lit Reviews

scholarly articles

Original research articles are based on an experiment or study. They may be called empirical articles. The authors will report the purpose of the study, the research methodology, and results. This is a familiar structure for original research articles > IMRAD: introduction, methods, results, and discussion.

Review articles summarize or synthesize content from earlier published research and are useful for surveying the literature on a specific research area.  Review articles can lead you to original research articles. Review articles can also be part of a book collection.

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