Response to the reading of Swales & Feak (1994)’s unit 7& 8: Constructing a Research Paper

This chapter introduces a typical organizational pattern for research papers including title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, and references. I have learned how to write them academically through Swales & Feak’ (1994)’s chapters until now, not the whole structure of my research paper but the part of them. However, this chapter helps me to draw a big picture of my research paper since I am going to write my research paper soon.

The unit seven explains about methods and results deeply, and the unit eight focuses on the other parts. Many practical tips were introduced through these two chapters. Among them tenses, which can be used on each part of the research paper are very useful because I have been curious about them and complicated so far. As long as I work with academic writings, I need to come back to Swales & Feak (1994)’s book, like other reference books.

Having read these two chapters, I can start to construct my research paper. Of course, this process is a just start and I need to practice these tips and skills over and over again to get used to them!

Swales, J. & Feak, C. B. (1994). Constructing a Research paper I. Academic writing for graduate students: A course for non-native speakers of English (pp.155-172). Ann Arbor, MI: the University of Michigan Press.

Swales, J. & Feak, C. B. (1994). Constructing a Research paper II. Academic writing for graduate students: A course for non-native speakers of English (pp.173-217). Ann Arbor, MI: the University of Michigan Press