1. Tips
(1) Easier to write than you may realize!
(2) Follows a fairly standard format
(3) Typically 3 paragraphs long
Recommended range: 2 to 5
(4) It is not and exhaustive review of your general topic
should focus on the specific hypothesis/aim of your study
2. 从宽到窄
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Paragraph 1
(1) What's known (previous studies)
Paragraph 2
(2) What's known (the gaps and limitations of previous studies)
Paragraph 3
(3) Your burning question/hypothesis/aim
(4) Your experimental approach
(5) Why your experimental approach is new and different and important (fills in the gaps)
3. Detailed tips
(1) Keep paragraphs short
(2) Write for a general audience
Clear, concise, non-techinical (尽量省去技术细节)
(3) Step by step:
👉Known——Unknown——Specific Question/Hypothesis
👉Summarize the previous studies at a high level! (细节放在Discussion)
👉Explicitly state your research question/aim/hypothesis
("We asked whether"; "Our hypothesis was")
