Relationship: connects to Gee’s first passage about Discourse.
Relationship: connects Gee’s writing to both the IMRAD cheat sheet and to Nair and Nair.
Connect: tells the author to connect to outside sources; you can’t have a scientific paper without outside input.
Understanding: why this format is so popular is because journals require this format in order to publish
Question: If IMRAD is so important for writing scientific papers, why aren’t the title and abstract included? They are the most looked at items in a paper.
Relationship: both Nair and Nair and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet agree on the degree of content that authors should include in the abstract.
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