In any peer-reviewed journal, the first question asked would be "What is the novelty of your work". It is important to ask this question to yourself and answer in your research introduction.
A quote from an answer given by Baba in Quora: "Virtually 99.999+% of the research work is incremental. The new elements they bring is either in the method, connecting the dots in a new way that was not previously thought of before, or observation of an effect that was not seen before. This does not dilute the achievement of the authors of the work. However, taking already existing building blocks and making a new figurine out of the said blocks can be argued that in itself is not novel. It is a highly skilled art form, and not easy."
Here are the ways to find out the novelty of your work and also some tips to improve your paper writing process.
A quote from an answer given by Baba in Quora: "Virtually 99.999+% of the research work is incremental. The new elements they bring is either in the method, connecting the dots in a new way that was not previously thought of before, or observation of an effect that was not seen before. This does not dilute the achievement of the authors of the work. However, taking already existing building blocks and making a new figurine out of the said blocks can be argued that in itself is not novel. It is a highly skilled art form, and not easy."
Here are the ways to find out the novelty of your work and also some tips to improve your paper writing process.
- Do a through literature survey and find out what are the key differences between your work and and research already done.
- Systematically analyze the already published papers, reference books, patents, conference papers, etc and find out what should be done.
- Establish that the results you got has never reported before or the method you have used is new in case what your work is improving a methodology.
- Write the paper when you start the work. Use the writing process as a tool to generate ideas and discover ideas and fuel to your thought process.
- Use tools like Mendeley or any other paid to write the paper for reference management.
- Use LaTeX to format your paper. In mathematics, if you submit paper written using word processors, it may be considered unprofessional. I remember some incident related to this and I will write about this later (probably this is related to solving a famous mathematical problem). When the number of equations, figures, references get more and more, you would end up with difficulty if you use word processors. So, you need LaTex.
- In the results and discussion, discuss the results obtained by other authors and discuss how your result is new or adds more to the field. You also generate new insights based your results and already reported results.
- In the conclusion highlight the results obtained and insights advances in your field or study.
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