ENGLISH FOR RESEARCH PURPOSE GUIDELINES ON MAKING THE INTRODUCTION:

M1
Establish a
literature
review
territory
(with
citations
M2
Establish a
niche
(citations
possible)
M3
presenting
the present
work
(citations
possible)

Step
i.
ii.
iii.

1
Topic generalization (general to specific)
Indicating centrality (
Background information citing definition, explanation from
others.

1A: indicating a GAP (means that the research has not been done
yet) or
1B: adding to what is known
2: presenting positive justification
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Announcing present research (i.e telling objective)

Research questions / hypothesis
Definitional clarification (optional)
Summarize the method (optional)
Announcing principal (major) outcomes (optional)
Stating the value (i.e hope that this can research can help
others..) (optional)
7. Outlining General Structure (optional)

Title: information Elements in the introductory sections of research papers in

nutrition
A lot of research has been done on the topic nutrition. Among all the
researchers, a few of them followed the format of elements in their introductory
sections that were prepared by Lim in 2012 and Swales in 2004. This format should
be followed because Lim and Swales has provided the best format for writing an
introduction, especially when writing research journals. This format would also help
the readers to get a clearer introduction and giving visualization to the readers on
what the research is about. According to Swales, he has developed three stages on
writing an introduction; the first stage is establishing a territory, second stage is
establishing a niche, and the third one is presenting the present work. Lim on the
other hand has developed more detailed criteria that need to be follow in each of
the three stages.
The research on investigating whether research journals on nutrition follow the
format of information elements in the introductory sections has not been done by
any researchers. The purpose of this research is to justify whether researchers on
nutrition follow the format of introductory sections prepared by Swales and Lim

*** 1st paragraph is M1, second is M2, the red words are what mdm commented.
Mdm said it needs to add up until 10 citings. Since M3 has not been done yet, so
you can do on that.