It is appreciated those having peer-reviewed article in mainstream journal give details explanation step by step showing his or her article sample to figure out the picture better.
In order to write a peer-reviewed journal article, you may follow an IMRAD structure:
- Introduction (states the subject of your article, its relevance, the problem you want to solve, the tested hypothesis);
- Methods (introduces the theoretical framework, the most relevant authors, their works and concepts, and a step-by-step presentation of the adopted methodology, including 'corpus' and type of analysis - i.e. quantitative/qualitative, top-down/bottom-up, etc.);
- Results (presents the investigaton's main conclusions, pointing out if the problem was solved and if the initially stated hypothesis is true or false);
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- Discussion (presents, with an argumentative logical reasoning, the relevance of your investigation, and its importance in theoretical terms and/or in applied investigation; also you may present new questions that arose during your analysis, or new problems to be solved in a possible future line of investigation).