Reporting Research

This section of a research article is often written first since it is usually the most concrete and specific part of the text, and thus easiest to write. In the hourglass described…

This article will help you develop skills to improve your writing in Engineering and Biomedicine. An important aspect of academic style includes the organizational conventions for…

In our last post, we discussed the elements that are always included in the title page regardless of the journal chosen for publication (i.e., Article title, Author names, Author…

The title page is the first page of your article, and therefore it is important to have a well-formatted title page that clearly represents your paper. This page should include all…

We hope that by now you are familiar with number conventions in formal writing. You can refer to Part 1 and Part 2 in this series, for a quick recap. In this post, we will…

Continuing from the last post, here is the second post in our series of simple rules on number conventions in formal writing. Rule #6 Spell out numbers that express the time, but…

The rules regarding numbers in writing vary among academic disciplines. The conventions within engineering, for example, may differ from those within economics. In this article, we…

In this post, we are going to deal with phrases used to compare results and those used to cite work by other authors. Comparison to Previous Results The purpose of the Discussion…

Continuing from the previous post, here are some more pointers for using phrases effectively. 5. Phrases to Show Emphasis Some phrases are used to draw the readers’ attention to…

In academic documents, authors need to describe or report a wide range of research activities. For example, they need to describe the aims/purpose of their research, refer to other…

In academic writing, precision and clarity in language is important. Ensuring a nuanced balance between certainty and caution can only be achieved by the strategic use of language;…

While we are constantly editing research material to ensure that authors and researchers go on to being published, an insight into what leads journal editors to accept articles is…