Advice for writing the sections that make up an article

Many article types and other documents contain similarly structured sections.

Caution: While writing your article, always look at your target journal to see how the best authors combine the ‘standard’ sections. There is considerable variety between engineering disciplines in the way they fit the basic elements together.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology writing centre

MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) writing centre offers advice on sections in student essay writing.





The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing

Technical and Scientific Writing
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing can also be used to learn about writing section-by-section. Use the hyperlinks in the table of contents.