When you get into the flow of writing it can be easy to slip into a comfortable style, moving you away from your target audience. You might start to drop a few casual contractions or colloquialisms into your text; before you know it the discussion section of your paper starts to read like a diary … Read the full story
When you write something, you choose a voice for your text – a style that applies throughout – and it can be active or passive. For centuries, academic writing has favored the passive voice, but what does that mean? And how can you use it effectively? In the active voice, the emphasis is on the … Read the full story
Spelling, punctuation and grammar can make or break an article. Good use of language can make a good article even better, but poor use of language can hide quality science, making it seem confusing, unclear and sloppy. Journal editors can receive thousands of submissions a year, and they have criteria for desk rejection. Poor English … Read the full story
You’ve spent hundreds of hours collecting results and analyzing data, and you’re close to the end of your research journey. There’s just one final hurdle: writing the manuscript. There’s a lot riding on your final publication, since it’s your chance to share your research with your peers and it will build the body of scientific … Read the full story
More than a million research papers are published every year and competition is fierce for a place in a top journal. When you’re getting ready to submit to a journal, you want to be sure you’ve done everything you can to make your manuscript the best it can be. You have checked it with your … Read the full story
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