how the genre of IMRaD report is different from an argument-based research paper, Monday, 10/15/2018

     We are going to write an IMRaD report for the second paper, and there are clearly indicated that we need to write abstract, introduction, methods, results and recommendations in the word document. So, I think the main difference between IMRaD report and normal research paper is the structure of paper.

     For normal research paper, we don't have to talk about what methods we used and what results for this research, and we can only describe and analyze the social phenomenon. However, ImRaD report has clear division of structure, so we need to follow the requirements to describe the research at first, talk about the methods we used for the research, the consequences for the social phenomenon, then give audiences some suggestions.Moreover, we need to use some graphs or tables to help analyzing the research. The IMRaD report like academic paper, and argument-based research paper like non-academic paper that we don't need to write too professionally.