Before writing, you should have the main work from Part 1 in front of you: the selected papers, inclusion and exclusion rules, PRISMA information, notes or a table for every paper, and an organized...

A literature review does not involve running a new experiment. Instead, you find research that already exists, decide which studies are relevant and trustworthy, and put the evidence together. The...

The Results section answers, “Here is what I found.” The Discussion answers, “Here is how I interpret it, how it compares with other research, and what I still cannot conclude.” That difference...

The Results section should tell the reader what you found. That sounds obvious, but it is very easy to start explaining why a result happened while you are still reporting it. That explanation belongs...

The Methods section explains exactly what you did and why you did it that way. I think of it like a recipe. Someone with the necessary data and resources should be able to read the section and...

The abstract and introduction appear at the beginning of a research paper, but they have different jobs. The abstract compresses the entire paper into a tiny space. It briefly covers why the study was...

Research papers throw around terms like 95% CI, OR, aOR, and p = 0.029 as if everyone already knows what they mean. When all of those numbers appear in the same results table, it can be difficult to...