Scientific Writing: Preparing a Manuscript for Publication in International Journals

INTRODUCTION

A critical aspect of the scientific process is the reporting of new results in scientific journals in order to disseminate that information to the larger community of scientists. Communication of your results contributes to the pool of knowledge within your discipline (and others!) and very often provides information that helps others interpret their own experimental results. The training course guides you in choosing appropriate formats and/or writing styles in developing various scientific journals. The participants will also be guided to outline a complete scientific paper, choose an appropriate journal to which they will submit the finished paper for publication, and prepare a checklist that will allow them to independently judge whether your paper is ready to submit.

DURATION

5 days

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Module 1: Introduction

• Principles of effective writing
• Importance of publishing
• Contents of a scientific paper
• How to select a subject
• Narrowing down to the topic
• Ethical guidelines and intellectual property

Module 2: Developing a Scientific Paper

• Checking the originality of the idea at the very beginning of your research
• The structure of a paper
• What to include in the title and abstract
• Crafting better sentences and paragraphs
• Check the English
• Impact metrics and citations
• Fundamental styles for developing a scientific journal

Module 3: Structure of a good manuscript

• Basic principles that should always be kept in mind
• What editors and reviewers love, and what they hate
• Good science
• Publication in good journal

               → Impact factor

               → Immediacy index

• Good writing
• Essential content
• Presentation

Module 4: Parts of Scientific Paper and formatting

• Title
• Authors
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgement
• References
• Supplementary materials

Module 5: Language issues

• Clarity, objectivity, accuracy, brevity
• Consistency of the sentences
• Logic of expression
• Accuracy of the grammar
• Spelling mistakes and typos
• Revision
• Conclusion