Biology Information Literacy

Now that we know a little more about scholarly articles, let's look at the traditional scientific article. Generally, it will contain the following sections:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Background or Literature Review
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References

These sections may vary slightly but usually will fall into this pattern regardless of whether they are a primary/empirical research article or a review article. 

See below for more information on how to evaluate the quality of a scientific study.