CONSIDERING FINDINGS IN ACADEMIC PAPER

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to analyze the ways in which findings are presented in humanitarian and exact sciences in peer-reviewed international academic papers. The object under analysis is the “Results” Section as one of the main components of academic paper. The subject of the presented study is structural peculiarities of an academic paper on the example of fifteen papers from peer-reviewed academic journals in the fields of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology and literature, literary criticism, cultural studies, etc. The methods of the study are a descriptive and a comparative ones; the method of contextual analysis is also used. In the findings of the study different approaches in posing findings in an academic paper have been considered. The results of the study are: 1) Introducing the “Results” Section by the scholars of humanitarian and exact sciences is different: the results in humanitarian academic papers are more generalized than those in exact sciences; 2) The structure of humanitarian academic papers differs from the structure of exact sciences papers: it does not consist of all the components which make up academic paper (it can be without conveying the “Results” and the “Discussion” Sections); 3) The exact sciences academic papers include the structure of all the components of academic paper: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion; 4) There are exact sciences academic papers which do not present the findings of the study in the “Results”, “Discussion”, “Conclusion” Sections as separate ones. The “Results” and the “Discussion” Sections can be combined in one section. Practical value of the given paper is as follows: the offered study can be used by PhD students and scholars working on academic papers to be published in peer-reviewed international journals.