Timeline for Journal articles — Is it okay to break down the introduction in subsections?
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | @Terry Loring okay, let's say four to six then. :) | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:53 | history | edited | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:23 | comment | added | Terry Loring | The four paragraph introduction might make sense for a six-page paper. For a thirty page paper that would generally be very short. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 11:37 | history | edited | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 10:21 | comment | added | Pseg | @henning Thanks for your answer :) It is indeed a good idea to do a separate section and I thought about doing that, but in my specific subdomain I also find it quite rare. Most articles privilege a long 1-2 page introduction and then a section about methodology usually follows. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 10:13 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | @Jochen Glueck Perhaps. I'm more familiar with humanities and social sciences, and here we only have a very contributions-focussed summary of the literature discussion in the introduction. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 10:10 | comment | added | Jochen Glueck | I'm not very familiar with publications in electrical engineering (the field mentioned by the OP), but as currently worded your last sentence seems to overgeneralize from some fields to others. For instance, in mathematics it's quite common to do the literature review within the introduction. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 10:05 | history | answered | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |