I am an undergraduate in university. I am new to scientific research and would like to know how to make my paper more professional. Thanks in advance.
Constant reading of scientific articles and books that deal with your field of study, as well as constant practice in writing. It is a progressive process as long as you are willing. Everything is in your interest and your good work.
One of the things that really helped me is to read several good quality papers from your field and carefully analyze their structure, writing style etc.
you can participate in some online course in EDX for better understanding scientific writing.
There is a good book by Rebecca Moore Howard called "Writing Matters". I can highly recommend it!
https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/writing-matters-handbook-writing-research-comprehensive-edition-exercises-howard/M9781259693557.html
Hi,
I can suggest the following steps:
1. Find papers published in your field in quality journals (e.g., look at the quartile of the journal: Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.).
2. Examine the structures of the papers you found (e.g., titles, subtitles, average wordcounts of each section in the paper, etc) and prepare an outline for your future paper structure.
3. Then, analyze the structure and content of each paragraph and sentence in each section in the paper (e.g., paragraphs and sentences in the introduction section, etc.) and take notes about them that will help you in beginning to write.
In brief, analyze good papers from whole to piece, create a paper outline for your future paper, and regularly update and use it.
I hope this answer helps you!
Constant reading of scientific articles and books that deal with your field of study, as well as constant practice in writing. It is a progressive process as long as you are willing. Everything is in your interest and your good work.
Writing as modeling is what makes poor writers into great writers in an instant. What does writing modeling look like? Copy a paper and follow the structure. If you want, you can even follow the sentence structure. All ideas are your own, but you follow the model so you will never be stuck.
Here is an example of a sentence:
"There is a paucity of research about research gap analysis, there is hardly any study which has conceptualized the research gap analysis based on certain dimensions and propositions." (Farooq, 2018, pp. 71, " A Framework for Identifying Research Gap in Social Sciences: Evidence from the Past," available on Researchgate.)
My model: I am writing about reflections in education, purely hypothetical for this example:
There is a lack of research about the effectiveness of reflections in education, and few studies demonstrate results which can be generalized to other situations and settings.
Notice, in my example, the semantic structure was utilized, but all the ideas are mine. Like Kamal M Alsaad stated, one must still have good ideas clearly presented. Others are helpful, too, such as reading and learning the field, but pay attention the headings & subheadings, sentence length/structure, types of paragraphs, and number of references. Follow a model when in doubt!
Finally, novice researchers often do not take the criticism from mentors and reviewers. If you are told to do something, do it!
Improving your scientific writing: a short guide By : Frederic D. Bushman
https://lijunsun.github.io/files/ScientificWritingV39.pdf
18 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR SCIENCE WRITING:
https://www.scitechedit.com/en-GB/helpful-resources/newsletters/502-improve-your-scientific-writing
Pls. Give more emphasis on
1.Research Methodology
2.Pls. be clear about problem as well as Research Question
4.Pls. Findout the solution according to your research Question
More evidence read and understood, the more scientific paper will come up,
Try choose recent articles and old articles equally
People say last 5 years, I say last 20 years, choose 2 from each year as close topic as you are writing
Then make a table of specification
1. abstract main points
2. Discussion main points
3. Methodology
4. Summary main points
5. Conclusion and recommendations
Read papers completely at least 3 times and make notes, make references, quotes
when you have read at least 20 papers and made notes then start writing your on paper
read time to time again and again same material
choose 2 most recent article and an old article as your parent articles
These 2 should guide you at the end to make your own paper perfect
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