1. Writing Guide: Different types of story structure:
IMRaD: Intro, Methods, Results & Discussion
OCAR:
Opening: Topic? What is the larger question that this story addresses?
Challenge: What’s your question?
Action: How do you address the challenge?
Resolution: How is our understanding of the world different after this story?

2. Writing Guide: Different types of story structure:
ABCDE: Action (DRAMATIC!), Bkgrd, Development, Climax, Ending (car crash story… )
LDR: Lead, Development, Resolution (Magazine article)
LD: (news article, just read the first page...)

3. The structure they chose:
OCAR:
Opening: Topic? What is the larger question that this story addresses?
Challenge: What’s your question?
Action: How do you address the challenge?
Resolution: How is our understanding of the world different after this story?
The structure they ended up with…
OCAR:
Opening: microRNAs…background
Challenge: How are microRNAs sorted?
Background that sort of pertains to question…
Action: A bunch of info from many research papers
More background that sort of pertains to question…
Resolution: (very short) microRNA sorting is important to understanding microRNA repression overall

4. What I would do to change the structure of article…
Cut out some of the trite info/background and focus more on the specific, interesting, unique info
(see pdf)