Assessing Your Writing Goals (Understanding Your Writing Process, Part 4) When setting goals, take a long view—a very, very long view. If you know what your writing process is and understand how to set Read More
Setting Goals for Writing Sessions (Understanding Your Writing Process, Part 3) There are no right or wrong goals. Your goals depend on where you are in the research and writing process. Unquantifiable goals might include, Read More
Making Time for Writing (Understanding Your Writing Process, Part 2) To write a research paper, you must shoulder a heavy cognitive load. You need to set that load down periodically and rest before you Read More
Limiting Distractions (Understanding Your Writing Process, Part 1) Something as simple as ensuring you’ve turned your notifications off or that you’re wearing your most comfortable clothes can help limit your distractions when Read More
Introducing the I in IMRaD Scientists often struggle to paper introductions. Introductions are often short (in some journals 1-2 paragraphs) and when we edit manuscripts, we commonly see Read More
10 Tips on Managing Research Notes and Increasing Productivity Here, we give tips on keeping your research organized for paper and dissertation writing, when the end goal is a published thesis or manuscript. Read More
What’s IMRaD? Why do scientific papers need a formal structure? The predictability of the IMRaD structure is its strength. We learn to quickly skim a scientific paper to extract the information we need, Read More
Are scientific papers objective? Subjective judgement frames experiments because they do not take place in a moral or historical vacuum. In medicine, for example, we may operate on Read More
What’s in an Introduction? Once a paper’s message is clear, writing a brief, targeted introduction is easy, especially if you’re organized and have kept track of the literature Read More
