{"id":52,"date":"2021-05-29T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2024-04-08T05:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:40:12","slug":"cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Writing an Introduction section can be difficult, in particularly knowing what to include and what to leave for later. To assist here, a helpful template is CARS, Create A Research Space. It uses three &#8220;moves&#8221;, starting very wide, and gradually zooming in on the specifics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move 1: Establish The Territory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of the paper, the reader barely know which research area is being addressed. So, you need to start wide, and answer two questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is the problem?<\/li><li>Aren\u2019t there available solutions already?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is done in three steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Claim centrality. Be bold.<\/li><li>Present a classic problem in the selected area. Again, be bold.<\/li><li>Review previous research. As the problem is so common, other researchers have obviously worked on this for a while. Be nice to them, they provided the pillars on which you stand.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move 2: Establish a Niche<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Explain why this paper is needed, separating it from the previous work. This can normally be done in one of four ways, so select the one that fits best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Counter-claiming. Maybe the previous work was wrong?<\/li><li>Indicate a gap. Very few solutions work in all situations, and you may have identified one where the previous work either doesn&#8217;t work at all, or is bad.<\/li><li>Question raising. Maybe there is room for improvement with the existing solutions?<\/li><li>Continue a tradition. It may simply be time to repeat a previous study.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move 3: Occupy the Niche<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, explain why the paper expands the body of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Clearly explain the purpose of this paper, for example in the form of research questions or hypotheses.<\/li><li>Present your main findings, listing the contributions. This is basically the Results and Discussion sections, compressed into a single paragraph. Be concrete and specific. If there are multiple authors, it may be a good idea to state who did what, as a &#8220;Statement of contributions&#8221; list.<\/li><li>Provide an overview of the rest of the paper. Doing this as a list of &#8220;section X contains this, section Y contains that&#8221; is typically super boring, so it can be better to integrate this into the previous two points.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing an Introduction section can be difficult, in particularly knowing what to include and what to leave for later. To assist here, a helpful template is CARS, Create A Research Space. It uses three &#8220;moves&#8221;, starting very wide, and gradually zooming in on the specifics. Move 1: Establish The Territory At the beginning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imrad.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}