Techniques of Writing A Good Scientific Paper
Learn how to write a well-organized and impactful scientific research paper with this comprehensive course. From understanding your audience to citing sources effectively, this course covers all aspects of writing a good paper. Perfect for anyone looking to improve their research paper writing skills.
What you’ll learn
- Aspects of Writing a Good Paper
- Types of Titles that can be used to write a Good Scientific Paper
- General Organization of a Paper
- The Language Used and how Citation is done
This course is divided into five sections. Each section will give tips of how to write a well-organized Research paper or article.
1. Introduction:- In Introduction, the aspects of writing a scientific paper is discussed that includes-
Knowing your audience and write for that specific audience
Your supervisor or professor is not here to teach you basic grammar and spelling
Not to turn the first draft immediately
Avoid using abusing words
Do not use complicated words when fewer words can do the job
How to Use an outline to organize your ideas and writing
How to structure the paragraphs
Pay close attention to tenses used
Captions should not merely name a table or figure, they should explain how to read it
When citing a reference, always focus on the idea not the author
Rather then telling the reader that a result is interesting or significant, show them how it is interesting or significant
Write about your results, not your tables, figures and statistics
How to develop a strategy for your Discussion will be discussed
How to write Introduction and conclusion
2. Types of titles that can be used includes indicative, Informative, Question-type and Main-subtle(series) types and purpose on which one to use when required
3. General Organization of Scientific paper– steps on how to organize a scientific paper will be discussed in this part of the course that includes-
Abstract that is the shortened version of the paper that includes:-
1) what the objectives of the study were;
(2) how the study was done
(3) what results were obtained
(4) and the significance of the results
How to write a good Introduction
Methods/Materials Used that provides all the methodological details necessary for another scientist to duplicate your work
Results– that includes the results of the experiment but does not attempt to interpret their meaning
Additional tips on how write a good Results Section
Discussion– explains what the results mean or why they differ from what other workers have found
4.How to Cite Sources in the Discussion Section- This is the last section of the paper. Here you should provide an alphabetical (or numbered according to the occurrence in your paper) listing of all the published work you cited in the text of the paper
5. Language that should be used while writing a Research Paper
Who this course is for:
- Available for all who want to learn how to write a good research paper