Have you ever stopped to consider your audience in academic writing? Do you write to impress the journal editor and peer reviewers? Or are you focused only on the “ultimate “consumers” of your paper, researchers from your field or related fields? Journal editors and peer reviewers play a crucial role …
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Every researcher is scared of duplicate publication of his/her article. Once you have finalized the draft of your new manuscript and are prepared to submit it to your coveted journal, you are ready to publish it. You have provided proper citation, given due credit, and avoided plagiarism by following the …
“As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.” – Donald O. Hebb Research paper language and its readability plays a crucial role in communicating your research ideas to the reader. People are busy and have no time …
As with any other skill, academic writing can be improved through practice and experience. Writing publishable research manuscripts does not come naturally to most scientific researchers, even those with a great deal of experience. However, because publication is so important to the success of research studies, and thus researchers, writing …
You have reached the point where you are happy with your research, you’ve completed a manuscript and selected a target journal. Yet while doing the final checks, you find that one of those pesky requirements sets the maximum length of the research paper, which you have greatly exceeded. As an …
Not surprisingly, far too often researchers, especially those from countries where English is not the first language, face outright desk rejections when submitting to journals. Non-adherence to the technical standards of reporting and language is one of the most common reasons for journal rejections. While research in scientific, technical, engineering, …
One of the most important skills you can imbibe as an academician is to know how to summarize a research paper. During your academic journey, you may need to write a summary of findings in research quite often and for varied reasons – be it to write an introduction for …