Tips For Writing

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

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