Advice for authors
A Suggested Structure for Living Educational Theory Research Papers This advice concerns the overall framing of your account; it does not dictate the labels that you may choose to apply to the separate parts of your account |
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Contents |
1. Preliminaries |
Title page / abstract See a typical title page of an EJOLTs paper e.g. at https://ejolts.net/node/392 |
2. Introduction |
Expansion of the abstract, outlining the enquiry in terms of its: Context(s) Purposes Contents |
3. Main text |
A developmental and structured account that gives full descriptions and explanations of the research process and its outcomes. The research question: context Planning: research principles (methodology) and techniques (methods) Carrying out the research: engagement and observing Gathering data Validating data Analysis: generating the research outcomes |
4. Conclusions |
The knowledge generated by the research, and its implications |
5. References |
A list of extracts from the literature directly quoted in the paper (latest APA version) |
6. Bibliography |
A list of sources given in the paper but without quoted extracts (latest APA version) |