On this page, you’ll find useful resources that help you write good scientific and scholarly papers. Research and writing are not always easy, but they can be learned and mastered over time. You can make use of these carefully-crafted resources to ameliorate your research skills, writing skills, and peer-reviewing skills.
- How to Write a Good Scientific Paper: This book can be read straight through, which is recommend for early-career scientists who are relatively new to writing and publishing papers.
- How to write a scientific article: This commentary offers practical suggestions for achieving success when writing and submitting manuscripts to professional journals.
- Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners: Authors describe here the basic steps to follow in writing a scientific article. They outline the main sections that an average article should contain; the elements that should appear in these sections, and some pointers for making the overall result attractive and acceptable for publication.
- 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously: This post conveys the advice of a researcher sharing his experience.
- Top 10 Ways to Promote Your Articles: This guide from Cambridge University Author Hub helps you promote your articles once they have been published.
- 9 Basic Ways to Improve Your Style in Academic Writing: Nine easy steps to polish your academic writing skills.
This video deals mostly with how to write up the results of quantitative research. The principles, however, apply to qualitative research too. You’ve done a study, you’ve collected and analysed the data. Now it’s time to write it up and get it published.
How to Write an Abstract for Scientific Paper
The abstract is one of the most important if not THE most important part of your entire research paper. It needs to accomplish two main objectives: it must give a concise summary of the content of your research paper; and it should seduce the reader into reading or purchasing your full paper.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to write the conclusions to a research paper. First-time authors of a scientific paper often confuse conclusions with a summary (a recitation of the results). The conclusions section of a scientific article is where the author needs to put the research into a broader perspective and articulate why the work is important and how it advances understanding.
13 TIPS FOR WRITING A GREAT JOURNAL ARTICLE: This short video by John Bond of Riverwinds Consulting gives tips on writing a journal article.