5 Methods to Distinguish and Identify Your Own Research Contribution from Others

Methods to Distinguish and Identify Your Contribution

The fact that you are so familiar with what you did means that your own contribution is obvious to you — but it may not be obvious to your reader.

One way to make sure that your own contribution is clear and easy to identify is by marking it with words — perhaps by adding phrases like In this study, the samples were collected using a suction tube or In our experiments the samples were collected using a suction tube, and by identifying the procedure used by other researchers with careful references at the appropriate place in the sentence (In Brown (1999) the samples were collected using a suction tube).

There are five possible uses that you may need. Note the different tenses.

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Method 4:

Method 5:

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Reference

Glasman, H. (2010). Science research writing for non-native speakers of English (pp. 50). Imperial College Press, London.