Citation:

Prem Kumar. "Improving IMRaD for writing research articles in social, and health sciences" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 50-53, 2023.

Abstract:

IMRaD has evolved as a universal style of writing articles across the disciplines of social, and health sciences. From the early stage of merely reporting, writing letters, and description, IMRaD argued for mentioning introduction, methods, results, and discussion while structuring an article. The study aims to highlight the importance of a few other sections of an article. These sections (Title, Abstract) also play significant roles while searching, filtering, and using articles from any databases (such as Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed). Structuring the title of an article, abstract, and literature review has become art for getting the articles accepted and published. The study emphasizes those areas to improve the IMRaD model using secondary data. Findings: It presents a logical argument on how to write each section of an article and its chronological order while developing an article from beginning. The article offers an improved model for writing research articles for all disciplines of research. It will assist the authors, publishers, and readers in understanding a research article in a better way.

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Keywords:

Article design, Article structure, IMRaD, Research article.