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Table 1 The three schemes
| S1 | Objective | OBJ | The background and the aim of the research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Method | METH | The way to achieve the goal | |
| Result | RES | The principle findings | |
| Conclusion | CON | Analysis, discussion and the main conclusions | |
| S2 | Background | BKG | The circumstances pertaining to the current work, situation, or its causes, history, etc. |
| Objective | OBJ | A thing aimed at or sought, a target or goal | |
| Method | METH | A way of doing research, esp. according to a defined and regular plan; a special form of procedure or characteristic set of procedures employed in a field of study as a mode of investigation and inquiry | |
| Result | RES | The effect, consequence, issue or outcome of an experiment; the quantity, formula, etc. obtained by calculation | |
| Conclusion | CON | A judgment or statement arrived at by any reasoning process; an inference, deduction, induction; a proposition deduced by reasoning from other propositions; the result of a discussion, or examination of a question, final determination, decision, resolution, final arrangement or agreement | |
| Related work | REL | A comparison between the current work and the related work | |
| Future work | FUT | The work that needs to be done in the future | |
| S3 | Hypothesis | HYP | A statement that has not been yet confirmed rather than a factual statement |
| Motivation | MOT | The reason for carrying out the investigation | |
| Background | BKG | Description of generally accepted background knowledge and previous work | |
| Goal | GOAL | The target state of the investigation where intended discoveries are made | |
| Object | OBJT | An entity which is a product or main theme of the investigation | |
| Experiment | EXP | Experiment details | |
| Model | MOD | A statement about a theoretical model or framework | |
| Method | METH | The means by which the authors seek to achieve a goal of the investigation | |
| Observation | OBS | The data/phenomena recorded within an investigation | |
| Result | RES | Factual statements about the outputs of an investigation | |
| Conclusion | CON | Statements inferred from observations and results, relating to research hypothesis |
