Subsection

How it is used

Used in theses, reports, and articles to improve structure, especially for methods, themes, case studies, or stages of an argument.

Example sentences

1. In the methods chapter, we added a subsection on participant recruitment because reviewers wanted more detail about sampling.

   The term marks a smaller organized part inside a larger chapter, showing where one specific topic is explained in depth.

2. Each subsection begins with a short topic sentence so readers can follow the argument without getting lost in the evidence.

   Here the word emphasizes document structure and readability by dividing a long argument into clearly labeled smaller units.

Common collocations

• add a subsection
• new subsection
• subsection heading

Related terms

• abstractA short summary at the start of an article, thesis or conference submission that states the aim, methods, main findings and conclusion.
• thesisA long piece of original research written for a university degree; also the main idea or position that an essay or article argues for.

More terms: Thesis and Article Structure

• dissertation
• paper
• conclusion
• discussion
• draft
• limitation
• proofread
• IMRaD
• introduction
• methods section
• keyword
• appendix