Techniques of Writing A Good Scientific Paper

Description

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-

1. • 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

2. 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

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