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# Section Moves
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Use this file only after the main section logic has been decided in `SKILL.md`. This file is for phrase-level and move-level support derived from `Academic Phrasebank`, not for deciding the paper's overall writing strategy.
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## Introduction
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Questions this section must answer:
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1. Why does the topic matter?
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2. What is already known?
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3. What is still missing or contested?
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4. What does the present study ask or do?
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Preferred move order:
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1. establish importance
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2. summarize what is known
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3. identify a gap, limitation, or controversy
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4. state the study aim
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5. indicate value or approach
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Useful phrase families:
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- `Recent years have seen increasing interest in ...`
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- `X is a central issue in ...`
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- `Previous studies have shown that ...`
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- `However, the mechanisms underlying ... remain poorly understood.`
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- `Few studies have examined ...`
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- `Here, we investigate whether ...`
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- `This work provides ...`
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Avoid:
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- long historical throat-clearing
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- detailed results
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- inflated novelty claims before the gap is defined
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## Literature Review
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Questions this section must answer:
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1. What lines of work define the field?
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2. What has been established?
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3. Where do findings diverge or remain incomplete?
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4. Which gap matters for the present paper?
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Preferred move order:
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1. describe the scope of existing work
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2. identify dominant approaches
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3. state what has been established
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4. note disagreements or contradictions
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5. isolate the missing piece
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Useful phrase families:
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- `A substantial body of work has focused on ...`
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- `Most studies have relied on ...`
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- `Previous work has established that ...`
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- `Findings have been mixed regarding ...`
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- `By contrast, little attention has been paid to ...`
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- `No study has yet examined ...`
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Avoid:
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- citation-by-citation summary
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- treating all prior work as uniformly weak
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## Methods
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Question this section must answer:
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- Could another group reproduce the work from this description, or from this description plus a clearly cited protocol?
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Preferred move order:
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1. design or cohort
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2. materials or data source
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3. procedure
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4. outcome measures
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5. analysis and statistics
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6. ethics when relevant
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Useful phrase families:
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- `A cross-sectional study was undertaken to ...`
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- `Samples were collected from ...`
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- `X was quantified using ...`
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- `We used ... to assess ...`
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- `Differences were analysed using ...`
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- `All analyses were performed in ...`
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Avoid:
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- `under standard conditions`
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- `using routine methods`
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- `data were analysed statistically`
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## Results
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Question this section must answer:
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- What was observed, under which condition, and with what evidence?
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Preferred move order:
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1. orient the reader to the figure, table, or experiment
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2. state the main observation
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3. add quantitative detail
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4. note expected or unexpected patterns
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5. compare with prior work only if it clarifies the result
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Useful phrase families:
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- `Figure 1 shows ...`
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- `As shown in Table 1, ...`
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- `The most notable finding was that ...`
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- `Contrary to expectations, ...`
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- `No significant difference was observed in ...`
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- `These results are consistent with ...`
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- `In contrast to earlier reports, ...`
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Avoid:
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- discussion-length mechanism explanations
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- repeating every visual detail from the figure
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## Discussion
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Questions this section must answer:
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1. What do the main findings mean?
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2. How do they relate to earlier work?
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3. Which explanations are plausible?
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4. What limitations constrain interpretation?
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5. What follows from the findings, and what does not?
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Preferred move order:
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1. restate the main finding
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2. explain plausible reasons
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3. compare with earlier work
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4. note limitations
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5. state implications
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6. point to future work if needed
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Useful phrase families:
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- `Taken together, these findings suggest that ...`
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- `A possible explanation is that ...`
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- `This discrepancy may reflect ...`
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- `These results should be interpreted with caution because ...`
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- `An implication of this is that ...`
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- `Further work is needed to determine whether ...`
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Avoid:
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- repeating the Results section in new words
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- claiming mechanism when only association was shown
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## Conclusion
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Questions this section must answer:
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1. What was the central contribution?
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2. Which finding matters most?
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3. What implication follows, with what boundary?
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Preferred move order:
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1. return to the aim
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2. summarize the decisive finding
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3. state contribution or significance
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4. give a boundary or forward look
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Useful phrase families:
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- `This study set out to ...`
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- `The present findings indicate that ...`
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- `These results extend our understanding of ...`
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- `Notwithstanding these limitations, ...`
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- `Further studies are required to ...`
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Avoid:
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- introducing new experiments
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- ending on vague praise of the work
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## Abstract
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Questions this section must answer:
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1. What problem or gap is being addressed?
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2. What was done?
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3. What was found?
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4. Why should the reader care?
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Preferred move order:
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1. broad context
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2. concrete gap
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3. approach
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4. key result with numbers if available
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5. implication
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Useful phrase families:
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- `X remains challenging because ...`
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- `Here, we ...`
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- `Using ... , we found that ...`
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- `We show that ...`
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- `These findings suggest ...`
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Keep the abstract selective. If a detail does not affect editorial triage, it probably does not belong.
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## Title
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Question this section must answer:
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- Which few words make the paper searchable, accurate, and interesting without overclaiming?
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Target properties:
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- searchable
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- specific
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- restrained
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- defensible
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Useful patterns:
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- `[Core entity] in/through/by [mechanism or context]`
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- `[Process] shapes [outcome] in [system]`
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- `[Signature/pattern/framework] of [phenomenon]`
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Avoid:
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- `A study of ...`
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- vague hooks
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- unverified `first`
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- stacked jargon
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