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Writing is typically solitary work, even if you have several co-authors. I recommend having a professional editor or a colleague look over your work, in addition to your co-authors. Someone with a fresh perspective on the writing will help you identify grammatical and typographical errors, as well as gaps in your story or flaws in your logic.
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Draft your figures before you starting writing your manuscript to generate an outline and ensure your story is complete.
In my PhD lab, we always drafted our results into figures before we started writing our manuscripts. Starting with your figures allows you to determine the story that your findings tell and identify any weaknesses.
Use strong, specific language and provide details in your writing to make your findings clear and facilitate reproducibility.
Writing is a way to present your ideas and findings. In order to make yourself as clear as possible, you should use specific language and provide details. Clarity and specificity are particularly important in scientific documents.
It is easy to feel overwhelmed or uncertain of how to proceed when preparing a scientific manuscript, grant application, or conference abstract. I have gathered some advice from journal editors that may guide your writing process. Although these tips are for journal articles, many of them apply to other types of academic writing.
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