How to Write a Good Scientific Paper: Structure and Organization

Writing is inherently a creative process. That would seem a good fit for the science researcher, where creativity coupled with critical thinking is the key to success. There are two main advantages of following the IMRaD structure: it makes it easier on the writer to organize the content of the paper, and it makes it easier on the reader to opportunistically find the information they are after. The purpose of the Discussion section is to explain the results and show how they help to answer the research questions posed in the Introduction. Other variants included separating out the motivation from the introduction, separating future work from conclusions, separating results from discussion, and breaking up a long section into separate parts.