🗣️"the lure of simpler more efficient academic writing also plays into the current culture of academic capitalism"
#AcWri
#AcWri
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD - LSE Impact
The IMRaD format may make research writing more efficient, but does this come at the cost of clarity and novelty?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
🗣️"the lure of simpler more efficient academic writing also plays into the current culture of academic capitalism"
#AcWri
#AcWri
💥New: If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
💥New: If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
The four victims murdered in the settler attack in the village of Tell, Nablus, yesterday. All young men, in the prime of their lives.
Farouk Ramadan
Ibrahim Ramadan
Jawad Ramadan
Imrad Ramadan
Farouk Ramadan
Ibrahim Ramadan
Jawad Ramadan
Imrad Ramadan
July 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM
The four victims murdered in the settler attack in the village of Tell, Nablus, yesterday. All young men, in the prime of their lives.
Farouk Ramadan
Ibrahim Ramadan
Jawad Ramadan
Imrad Ramadan
Farouk Ramadan
Ibrahim Ramadan
Jawad Ramadan
Imrad Ramadan
👀ICYMI: "these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment and standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD."
#AcademicSky #SciComm #IMRaD
#AcademicSky #SciComm #IMRaD
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
👀ICYMI: "these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment and standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD."
#AcademicSky #SciComm #IMRaD
#AcademicSky #SciComm #IMRaD
🗃️"these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment a standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD."
#AcWri #PhDchat
#AcWri #PhDchat
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD - Impact of Social Sciences
The IMRaD format may make research writing more efficient, but does this come at the cost of clarity and novelty?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Backwards writing: Results → Methods → refine the Discussion → Introduction → Abstract → Title
Finding your scientific story by writing backwards - Marine Life Science & Technology
To succeed, a scientist must write well. Substantial guidance exists on writing papers that follow the classic Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRaD) structure. Here, we fill a critica...
link.springer.com
May 14, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Backwards writing: Results → Methods → refine the Discussion → Introduction → Abstract → Title
Interesting reflection on the limitations of standard academic writing following the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion). Long article in comments.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interesting reflection on the limitations of standard academic writing following the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion). Long article in comments.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
There is considerable confusion regarding the IMRaD model in scientific articles. Some key issues for practitioners in the social sciences and humanities >
The IMRaD model of scientific articles: what is and how can be applied in the humanities and social sciences?
doi.org/10.31009/hip...
The IMRaD model of scientific articles: what is and how can be applied in the humanities and social sciences?
doi.org/10.31009/hip...
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There is considerable confusion regarding the IMRaD model in scientific articles. Some key issues for practitioners in the social sciences and humanities >
The IMRaD model of scientific articles: what is and how can be applied in the humanities and social sciences?
doi.org/10.31009/hip...
The IMRaD model of scientific articles: what is and how can be applied in the humanities and social sciences?
doi.org/10.31009/hip...
Si bien #IMRyD facilita la comunicación científica, también puede limitar la #creatividad y el #pensamientocrítico, sobre todo en #cienciassociales. Muy interesante el artículo de Øyunn Syrstad Høydal en el blog de LSE. #EscrituraAcadémica #IMRaD
💥New: If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
👩💻Øyunn Syrstad Høydal #AcWri #AcademicSky #SocialScience
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Si bien #IMRyD facilita la comunicación científica, también puede limitar la #creatividad y el #pensamientocrítico, sobre todo en #cienciassociales. Muy interesante el artículo de Øyunn Syrstad Høydal en el blog de LSE. #EscrituraAcadémica #IMRaD
The only time I've won first prize for a poster it had a very different structure to the usual IMRAD. But it was still very wordy...
Next time I have a poster, I'll experiment with a dramatically reduced word count.
Next time I have a poster, I'll experiment with a dramatically reduced word count.
February 20, 2026 at 12:49 PM
The only time I've won first prize for a poster it had a very different structure to the usual IMRAD. But it was still very wordy...
Next time I have a poster, I'll experiment with a dramatically reduced word count.
Next time I have a poster, I'll experiment with a dramatically reduced word count.
BREAKING: Imrad Khan's son urges the international community to act against Pakistan’s leadership as the country braces for massive protests.
#Pakistan #ImranKhan
#Pakistan #ImranKhan
September 23, 2026 at 12:19 PM
BREAKING: Imrad Khan's son urges the international community to act against Pakistan’s leadership as the country braces for massive protests.
#Pakistan #ImranKhan
#Pakistan #ImranKhan
弊社は客観的に見て優秀な人が多い会社なんだけど，それでもきちんとレポートを書ける人は少ないんだなあというのを常々感じる．ここで「きちんと」とは，当事者以外が読んでもある程度わかるレベルで Self-Contained であり，適当なレベルで IMRAD フォーマットになっていることを指すつもり．
May 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
弊社は客観的に見て優秀な人が多い会社なんだけど，それでもきちんとレポートを書ける人は少ないんだなあというのを常々感じる．ここで「きちんと」とは，当事者以外が読んでもある程度わかるレベルで Self-Contained であり，適当なレベルで IMRAD フォーマットになっていることを指すつもり．
Conclusion, hvor ble det av deg i alt IMRAD-mylderet?
September 2, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Conclusion, hvor ble det av deg i alt IMRAD-mylderet?
I have started #writing backwards for my #PhD papers, and I have noticed a clear improvement in my sentence structure, grammar, and flow. I never thought about starting with the #conclusion, but now that I have, I am not going back — only backwards!
I highly recommend doi.org/10.1007/s429.... 🧪
I highly recommend doi.org/10.1007/s429.... 🧪
Finding your scientific story by writing backwards - Marine Life Science & Technology
To succeed, a scientist must write well. Substantial guidance exists on writing papers that follow the classic Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRaD) structure. Here, we fill a critica...
doi.org
January 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have started #writing backwards for my #PhD papers, and I have noticed a clear improvement in my sentence structure, grammar, and flow. I never thought about starting with the #conclusion, but now that I have, I am not going back — only backwards!
I highly recommend doi.org/10.1007/s429.... 🧪
I highly recommend doi.org/10.1007/s429.... 🧪
Perhaps not so important, but a lot of scientific work will not say "epistemic" — that's more humanities and, however placed, philosophy.
Also many scientific papers are structured in a rigid way, so much so in psychology (a huge field) we have methodological / paper-structural unification (IMRaD).
Also many scientific papers are structured in a rigid way, so much so in psychology (a huge field) we have methodological / paper-structural unification (IMRaD).
July 19, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Perhaps not so important, but a lot of scientific work will not say "epistemic" — that's more humanities and, however placed, philosophy.
Also many scientific papers are structured in a rigid way, so much so in psychology (a huge field) we have methodological / paper-structural unification (IMRaD).
Also many scientific papers are structured in a rigid way, so much so in psychology (a huge field) we have methodological / paper-structural unification (IMRaD).
Min biveileder spurte meg hele veien i doktorgradsløpet: "what's your story?".
Det er det som teller. Det hjelper ikke med IMRAD hvis man ikke har noe å si.
Det er det som teller. Det hjelper ikke med IMRAD hvis man ikke har noe å si.
March 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Min biveileder spurte meg hele veien i doktorgradsløpet: "what's your story?".
Det er det som teller. Det hjelper ikke med IMRAD hvis man ikke har noe å si.
Det er det som teller. Det hjelper ikke med IMRAD hvis man ikke har noe å si.
I have managed to escape it — pretty much none of my papers follow IMRaD or even have statistics, and am open to giving advice, but it's also there for a reason (not saying it's valid of course) for experimental work.
July 19, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I have managed to escape it — pretty much none of my papers follow IMRaD or even have statistics, and am open to giving advice, but it's also there for a reason (not saying it's valid of course) for experimental work.
What's up with "Methods-last" papers (e.g. in Cell/Nature/Science)? If IMRaD structure is so great, what are "Methods-last" papers doing? Take a closer look - they're not as odd as you might think! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/m...
“Methods-last” papers aren’t really methods-last
When I teach scientific writing, I of course teach my students the canonical IMRaD structure of a scientific paper (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). They really like this, and I under...
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
May 28, 2024 at 1:09 PM
What's up with "Methods-last" papers (e.g. in Cell/Nature/Science)? If IMRaD structure is so great, what are "Methods-last" papers doing? Take a closer look - they're not as odd as you might think! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/m...
Les plateformes telles que X « échouent lamentablement à limiter la portée des publications qui glorifient les meurtres et le chaos » déclare le CEO du CCHD, Imrad Ahmed. Source : abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Les plateformes telles que X « échouent lamentablement à limiter la portée des publications qui glorifient les meurtres et le chaos » déclare le CEO du CCHD, Imrad Ahmed. Source : abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
"As social scientists, researchers, authors, lecturers, reviewers and editors, we should take the time to reflect over how we write, why we do so and if we maybe could do it differently"
Interesting piece by Øyunn Syrstad Høydal
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Interesting piece by Øyunn Syrstad Høydal
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"As social scientists, researchers, authors, lecturers, reviewers and editors, we should take the time to reflect over how we write, why we do so and if we maybe could do it differently"
Interesting piece by Øyunn Syrstad Høydal
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Interesting piece by Øyunn Syrstad Høydal
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Fantastic!
I teach freshman composition and rhetoric using the IMRaD method to help students read research, annotate effectively, and paraphrase. This improves reading comprehension, critical thinking, and reduces plagiarism.
Here’s another brief video
youtu.be/aCms5ZNw0TI?...
I teach freshman composition and rhetoric using the IMRaD method to help students read research, annotate effectively, and paraphrase. This improves reading comprehension, critical thinking, and reduces plagiarism.
Here’s another brief video
youtu.be/aCms5ZNw0TI?...
Why Civil Resistance Works
YouTube video by Harvard Kennedy School
youtu.be
February 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Fantastic!
I teach freshman composition and rhetoric using the IMRaD method to help students read research, annotate effectively, and paraphrase. This improves reading comprehension, critical thinking, and reduces plagiarism.
Here’s another brief video
youtu.be/aCms5ZNw0TI?...
I teach freshman composition and rhetoric using the IMRaD method to help students read research, annotate effectively, and paraphrase. This improves reading comprehension, critical thinking, and reduces plagiarism.
Here’s another brief video
youtu.be/aCms5ZNw0TI?...
An interesting read for our social scientists @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on the limitations of IMRaD from Øyunn Syrstad Høydal, who calls for writers to experiment with more diverse structural choices
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
An interesting read for our social scientists @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on the limitations of IMRaD from Øyunn Syrstad Høydal, who calls for writers to experiment with more diverse structural choices
Me trying to review my kid's thesis proposal and struggling a bit because it isn't IMRaD: "Mom, you can't say that pretty pictures breaks your brain. You sent me to pretty pictures college!" (Visual Communications)
April 27, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Me trying to review my kid's thesis proposal and struggling a bit because it isn't IMRaD: "Mom, you can't say that pretty pictures breaks your brain. You sent me to pretty pictures college!" (Visual Communications)
My overuse of exclamation points and emotional labor has brought me to a 30-day no exclamation point experiment. Set it up IMRAD-style with a daily log. Anyone want to join the experiment or have esoteric exclamation facts?
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My overuse of exclamation points and emotional labor has brought me to a 30-day no exclamation point experiment. Set it up IMRAD-style with a daily log. Anyone want to join the experiment or have esoteric exclamation facts?
IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is the standard format in #academic writing in the #SociaSciences.
But Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that it constrains creativity and even the kinds of studies researchers choose to undertake @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
But Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that it constrains creativity and even the kinds of studies researchers choose to undertake @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is commonplace in academic writing in the social sciences. Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that while it may make research writing more eff…
buff.ly
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) is the standard format in #academic writing in the #SociaSciences.
But Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that it constrains creativity and even the kinds of studies researchers choose to undertake @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
But Øyunn Syrstad Høydal argues that it constrains creativity and even the kinds of studies researchers choose to undertake @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇