Sighing to myself as I try once again to orient myself in the midst of a 30-page article on an educational study — one that has section headings and everything, and is pretty well organized, but still is a bear to read.
Research articles should have a table of contents. Jeez.
When I’m in charge, were adding that to the style guide.
A 30-page paper on [one] educational study… Albert Einstein’s 1905 paper titled “Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?” (“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy Content?”) described Special Relativity, including the derivation of E = mc² was published in the Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics). It upended the entire field of physics. Number of pages? Three.
Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_publications_by_Albert_Einstein
I’d be remiss if I did not offer an example of how to expand a three-page paper by Einstein on Special Relativity (1905, Annals of Physics) into a multi-page collection of notes on this topic, courtesy of Virginia Tech:
http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/notes/index.html