IMRaD Report vs. Research Paper

The purpose of the IMRaD report is to write a paper over a research experiment. You must conduct a research experiment or poll and add the data to the paper. You also need to interview two or three people, and ask about their beliefs of the topic. Also the report is structured differently. First you need to write an abstract. Then write the introduction, methods, results, and discussion. A works cited and appendix are optional for this assignment.
This assignment is different than the research paper. The structures are completely different because for the IMRaD, you have sections and subheadings. In the research paper, you have a basic structure for an argumentative paper. For this assignment, you need to do an experiment and interview people. In the research paper you didn't, it only required you to find academic and nonacademic sources.