ABSTRACT

You may want to publish your research as part of your quest for fame and fortune or, at the very least, for tenure, but the only truly appropriate reason for publishing your research is to tell others about it. The purpose of your paper is to explain why you did a piece of work, how you did it, what you found, and what your findings might mean. The explanation of your methodology should be sufficiently detailed to allow the scientists in your field to repeat your work exactly, if they so choose. Your work is the foundation on which other researchers will base their future work and, as you must surely recognize, your work is based on the earlier research of others.