Academic Writing - Disposition

Disposition

The most common disposition standard in the academic world is the IMRAD method, stating that an academic document should consist of sections in the following order:

  • Introduction (Problem motivation, aim, objective, problem statement, own contributions, background materials, overview)
  • Method (Assumptions, questionary, system model, simulation model, performance measures)
  • Result (Empirical results, charts, plots)

and

  • Discussion (Analysis, Conclusions)

Other common sections in academic documents are:

  • Abstract
  • Indeces
  • Bibliography
  • List of references
  • Appendix/Addendum, any addition to a document

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