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This chapter presents an overview of the journal article, a paper suitable for submission to a refereed chemistry journal. It describes some defining characteristics of journal articles while emphasizing concise writing and organization. The major purpose for writing a chemistry journal article is to share the results of original research with other chemists. The primary audience for a journal article is an expert one; readers are typically well educated and highly experienced in the subfield of chemistry addressed in the article. Chemistry readers (experts and non-experts alike) want crisp, clean sentences that say what needs to be said and no more. As such, concise writing is important in every section of the journal article. In general, journal articles are divided into four major sections. These sections have the familiar names: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Collectively, this organizational structure is referred to as the IMRD format, which promotes targeted reading. |
