Top 10 rules
Note that writing a paper to journal is a painstaking effort and takes a lot of time for researchers in their early career (some times even for experts too). Sometimes, it may be possible for an expert to write a complete paper from conception to submission format. These are considered to be an exception. Personally, I take at least six months to come with the first draft of the manuscript. Here is one of the ways to write papers quickly for a journal of conference.
- Start with the hypothesis and start writing. Don't procrastinate. Write from the starting of the work, when you are doing experiment, write the methodology.
- Review the notes and renew the literature search, and refine your conception and hypothesis
- Determine who your audience is - most likely reviewers, so get their concerns firstly addressed
- Create the outline and get the big picture done, i.e., complete the first draft while resisting the temptation to correct and edit as you go; the logical sequence of data/tables/figures may be the outline; while writing the first draft, take notes indicating what references might be needed and would be about, but don't stop to collect the references
- Begin with the easier part of the task - experimental section rather then the introduction; then follows the results and discussion section
- Then comes the really hard part - critical editing where you make sure that the English is coherent and the science is correct
- Write the conclusion in a numbered format
- Then comes the abstract and the acknowledgements
- Now comes the introduction, the two most important things to address in which are the purpose and relevant background
- Then collect the references.
- Use Latex for writing your paper. No matter how complicated your paper is, LaTeX will give you a best final draft.
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