Reporting Research

Adverbs, the lesser known offspring of adjectives and verbs, are words that modify the original meaning of their parents – the adjective and the verb. Adverbs in scientific writing…

Research papers are packed with information; however, not all of it needs to be included in your main paper. Although you want to share all of it, your paper should focus on only…

We’ve already covered the basics of periods, commas in the first article, and those of semicolon, colon and quotation marks in the second article of this series. Now, it’s time to…

Writing a good literature review is essential for any good research. In our previous articles in this series, we learned about databases used in literature review for life science…

Writing in the first, second, or third person is referred to as the author’s point of view. When we write, our tendency is to personalize the text by writing in the first person.…

The discussion section of your manuscript can be one of the hardest to write as it requires you to think about the meaning of the research you have done. An effective discussion…

This is the second in a series of articles that discusses the different databases used in literature review and how they are important to your research and writing. Part I…

The abstract is in many ways the most important part of an academic paper. Peers and reviewers alike decide whether or not they will continue to read an article based on the…

When we think of research articles, most of the time we think of articles that present the results of studies that took a long time to complete. Generally, these articles contain…

Coherence is an essential quality for good academic writing. In academic writing, the flow of ideas from one sentence to the next should be smooth and logical. Without cohesion,…

In the first part of this series, we highlighted the challenges and takes from authors and journals on image manipulation. So who’s really in charge of making sure that journals…

A digital library serves as an online archive of information and can be one of the most useful tools for the researchers. One such tool was CiteSeer that was launched long back but…