An Analysis of the Articles in Literary Illustrations

The present study aimed at analyzing the structure of six scholarly-written articles, published in Journal of Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature and checking their correspondence to the established standards of academic-research journals. With respect to observing the so called standards, scholars have come to invaluable findings and experience, resulting in defining some principles and regulations for academic writing. Following such principles demands skillfulness, experience, expertise, and professionalization. The results of the analysis of the mentioned articles revealed some weaknesses like having too general titles, poorly written abstracts and introductions, sketchy representation of theoretical frameworks, lack of problem-centered approach, lack of presenting recent findings in the results, and coming to very general and cliché conclusions. On the other hand, some of the investigated papers attempted to observe the standards. They had some strong points including innovation, problem-centered approach, and citing reliable and recent references.