Writing Posted on May 22, 2018 By Ardian Setiawan If you can talk about your research clearly, then you can write it. The simplest way to check whether or not you can produce a ‘comprehensible’ article is by talking about your research. If you can share it to others without making them lost in the jungle [of understanding], you will likely generate an article which can be accepted and understood by the academia. If you cannot talk about it clearly, do not start writing. You have to understand your research better than the audience [readers]. Simplify. Use a plain-simple language to talk about your research. Complexity is easy to achieve, but writing should start from simplicity – simple language. Next, add the spices. Put the details and improve the complexity without altering the readability. This is a simple ‘writing’ recipe from an ‘old’ editor 😎🚩
Learning Posted on October 27, 2017 The fact is, it has no end. It’s a journey of achieving understandings. So many that it’s impossible to finish. #motivated Read More
Writing the Methodology Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 Read this first – Writing the Introduction How should you write the section? What are important points you should include in the section Ok. Let’s use the Q&A method. Here are key questions you need to answer for completing the methodology part of your scientific article. 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵… Read More
Why scientific manuscripts are rejected? Posted on September 16, 2019September 17, 2019 Summarizing various reasons for rejection of scientific manuscripts, Lucey (2015) proposed 12 dominant factors: Clarity: the paper needs to tell us what it is doing. If there are a host of good ideas all crowding each other out then in the confines of the space available in a modern journal article… Read More