There are many ways to introduce an academic essay or assignment. Most academic writers, however, appear to do one or more of the following in their introductions:
-establish the context, background and/or importance of the topic
-indicate a problem, controversy or a gap in the field of study
-define the topic or key terms
-state the purpose of the essay/writing
-provide an overview of the coverage and/or structure of the writing
What are strategies to improve the quality of the academic paper ?
Agreed with the answers shared my earlier researchers / scholars. Other strategies include:
Submit your academic paper to high ranking ISI journals - it doesn't matter your paper is rejected or being provided with negative critiques. Because through their critiques you can learn & improve the paper's quality.
Spend more time & effort on discussion section of the academic paper - discussion section can be 1 of the most difficult to write section whereby author needs to interpret, explain, justify the result findings & knowledge contribution based on the empirical evidence.
Attend & present more frequently in research conferences / colloquiums organized by the universities - through Q&A between audience & the researcher / author can improve the author's experience & knowledge on how to write quality academic paper.
You can improve the quality of your writing generally, not just academic papers by being humble enough to subject your work to critique and being smart enough to acept corrections even if it pains you to do so.
I guess you must be meticulous and innovative in your research. But, first of all, you must investigate a *real* problem. Not a "research only" problem.
Writing in English is not an easy task to a non-native (Imagine a Canadian trying to write in Portuguese, it is the same :-). So, try to be as simple and precise as possible to describe your findings.
Do not be afraid of the "almost" infinite cycle of rejection-resubmissions. Every living researcher has already received at least dozens of rejects.
The following sources should be helpful to your topic:
Day, A. and Peters, J. (1994) Quality Indicators in an Academic Publishing, Library Review, 43, 7, pp. 4-72.
Perry, C. (1998) A structured approach to presenting phd theses: notes for candidates and their supervisors, Australasian Marketing Journal, 6, 1, pp. 63-86.
Well first of all we need think what impact does our work will have in the field of science. Some or the other impact need to be there when you work on a particular project so that it will get benefited to the people. The main strategies are: we should never deviate from the objective of the paper work. Then we need to try and get the best possible results so that if anybody is going to refer our work then he should get benefited by it. Apart from these strategies please go through the attached website.
As I was about to post my proposal of answer to your question, I came across Ian Kennedy's perfect answer... and nearly gave up writing... My proposal would be:
1. To be honest all the way through;
2. Be accurate and concise (people have other things to do than just read you...)
3. As my first two items have already been focused by Ian, I should add that if you want to grab your reader's attention, all the way, you should always treat others as more intelligent than you, as a compliment, but also as an entycenment, and lead them slowly to your own conclusions.
Even if you are innovative and to be considered as the specialist in your subject, I find that addressing others as more knowledgeable than you will keep their attention and sympathy to your writings.
Good luck! I wish you great succes through 2017 and onwards.
If you have the chance, put the paper down for a few days or even weeks, then read it through again. It's amazing how many improvements you will be able to make.
When we get too involved in the paper, we tend to overlook the point of view of a reader, who would be approaching the subject matter cold. With a little time, you may find yourself asking, "What was I thinking when I wrote that??" Just as any other reader would be wondering.
Dear Musab : I fully agree with Albert, do not look at your paper for a few days, then usually something happens (while jogging or doing something unrelated) and you suddenly clearly see changes/additions you did not think about before. Khan's strategy's looks great too! I always am intrigued at how difficult it is (for students especially) to create a document that goes from A to B in a straight, clear and logical line, without including distracting/unnecessary facts. Writing is indeed difficult.
Academic writing, in essence, is putting forth a scholar’s ideas and research to his/her academic peers. Following are the main points to keep in mind:
Strong data and convincing design of paper would be effective in the paper quality especially collective discussion that shows the importance of the project.
Further to my previous recommendations, please find below the helpful sources:
Klingner, J. K., Scanlon, D. and Pressley, M. (2005). How to Publish in Scholarly Journals. Educational Researcher, Vol. 34, 8, pp. 14-20.
Ortinau, D. J. (2011). Writing and publishing important scientific articles: A reviewer's perspective. Journal of Business Research, 64, 2, pp. 150-156.
Whitfield, R. and Peters, J. (2000). Quality in scholarly publishing. Managing Service Quality, 10, 3, pp. 151-155.
Have a look at REF-N-WRITE scientific paper writing tool. This tool allows you to import text from previous papers relevant to the subject area in MS word. While you are writing your paper, you can just search for similar statements from other authors and inherit their vocabulary and language to improve your paper. It also comes with a library of academic phrases that you can readily use to polish your paper. Here is the link for the site.
Quality can be improved in form and in head. Improvement in head ("fondo" in Spanish) is not always welcome by editors, and in form each journal has its own norms for publication given by publishers.
Ian's answer is excellent. Although Maria is right, never talk down to you audience as if they were a lower class, please remember that students will be reading this also. So if you are using industry or academic major specific terms (especially acronyms) you might want to define them once so that the reader can better understand what you are trying to say.