"Big Stuff, Small Stuff"

After reading the paper, "Big Stuff, Small Stuff," I realized that there is a large difference in the style of IMRaD report compared to an argument-based research paper. I am very unfamiliar with IMRaD reports, so to first start off, when I was just scrolling through, I realized there were many headings. The headings all explained what the following paragraph(s) were going to be about. It was only a few words in the headings, but there were many of them, and they were useful when trying to find something. Even in some of the larger, more acknowledgeable headings, there were subheadings underneath that pertain to the main idea of the larger heading. An example is the main heading was "Findings" which contained some data and a paragraph and then a subheading was "Most Distracting Items." This is usually not used in a normal paper that we write because we only have a few headings with no subheadings, whereas IMRaD reports have quite a few.
Another thing I found was right away in the beginning, before the report even started, there was a script about what the study was and how the results shown are effective. This would be called an abstract which gives a brief overview of what he did for his experiment, what the results were, and what the results mean. This just helps the reader identify what the report is about and how the author has credibility towards their work and writing. I have never had to write an abstract for a research paper that I've written, so it was a little odd reading what was going to be in the paper right away. But it is useful since the paper is so long, it breaks it down and then the headings help find something if you need it right away.
Another difference with the IMRaD reports is the way the data is shown in the report, The results and analysis is explained in the report, but there is also data tables and such to help give a visual to those that are reading the report. In a normal argumentative paper, we only explain the results that we find, rather than putting in an actual chart in the paper. This would be useful since it is an experimental report, there is going to be numbers included, so it is appropriate to have a table. There are differences between an IMRaD report and argument paper, but it is clearly acceptable as to why the differences are so largely shown.