Importance of a well-structured PhD dissertation If you are reading this, you might have just finished writing or are in the process of finishing your PhD dissertation/thesis. Congratulations are in order, but before submitting your work for review, it’s essential to check your work, focusing on the content and readability. …
Once you enter the world of academia, you quickly realize that the culture of ‘publish or perish’ is here to stay. You are required to publish your work to get a job, further your career, or even attract research funding, all of which highlight the importance of manuscript readiness to …
Communicating research effectively through academic papers is one of the most essential components of any academic journey. While many PhD students and early career researchers are aware of presenting their data in a technical manner, either in the form of protocols or SOPs, writing an academic paper is a completely …
No one likes to be rejected. However, the sad truth is that research authors have to deal with their fair share of rejection, some more than others. A discouraging study on submissions from 18 countries revealed that journal rejection rates can range from 22.6% to 73.4%, depending on the journal …
Latin abbreviations, such as, etc., versus, circa, et al., ibid. and id., often crop up in academic writing. While their English phrases are acceptable, researchers use Latin abbreviations as they take less time and fewer characters to write. Yet it’s not always easy to get these right. In this article, …
Once you are sure about what to include in your research article, the next big question many young researchers are faced with is how to include the information and which writing voice to use. It’s common to be uncertain about whether to use the active or passive voice in research …
Have you ever stopped to consider your audience in academic writing? Do you write to impress the journal editor and peer reviewers? Or are you focused only on the “ultimate “consumers” of your paper, researchers from your field or related fields? Journal editors and peer reviewers play a crucial role …
One of the biggest turning points of any PhD student’s journey is the submission of a research writing project in the form of either a PhD thesis or a PhD dissertation. From an academic perspective, the thesis/dissertation is in many ways a major indicator of the abilities and expertise that …
You have finalized the draft of your new manuscript and are prepared to submit it to your coveted journal. You have provided proper citation, given due credit, and avoided plagiarism by following the editorial guidelines. However, there are still a few aspects of the journal’s duplicate publication regulations that can …
“As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.” – Donald O. Hebb Readability is communicating your research ideas with simple word choices and sentence structures. People are busy and have no time to slog through long sentences …
