Abstract:This article provides tips to improve writing and to inspire readers to write for publication. Simple but powerful ways to improve writing include omitting needless words, using the active voice, and using first-person pronouns.Techniques to help novice writers get started are addressed. Th
Winslow E. H. (2008). Writing for publication: you can do it!. Journal for healthcare quality: official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, 30(4), 12–16.
For those who do not have an access, writing tips for academic publishing:
Improving your writing:
Use simple, familiar terminology (eg. try rather than endeavor).
Omit unnecessary words.
Avoid empty phrases (eg. it is/there is, in spite of the fact, etc.)
Avoid the use of qualifiers such as rather, very, little, pretty, quite, sort of.
Avoid useless adverbs and adjectives (and constructions like exact same or each and every).
Use specific language, be concrete.
Use the active voice; use the passive voice only when the subject of the action is irrelevant or when variety is needed.
Use first-person pronouns.
Avoid "nounification" - verbs are more preferable to nouns made from them.
Avoid personification - do not give lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects..
Put yourself in the readers' shoes and write in a manner that would appeal to them.
Rewrite and rewrite and rewrite.
Read books and articles about how to write effectively.
Getting started:
Write for a local newletter.
Write a letter to the editor in response to the article in the professional journal of your discipline.
Convert a presentation into a publication.
Get help from an experienced author.
Excuses for not writing:
The only valid one: "I have nothing to say".
"It's too hard" - yes, but few important things in life are easy.
"I don't have time" - writing is a choice. If you make writing a priority, you will make time for it.
"I don't write well" - everyone can learn. Clear thinking results in clear writing, and both are acquired skills that need continual sharpening
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Why you should write for publication:
For the future of our profession - we should learn from each other and use gained knowledge to advance further.
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People have long been fascinated by the human relationship to time. Pericles is reported to have advised a belligerent warrior to “be ruled by time, the wisest counselor of all” (Plutarch 75 A.D.). Although the target of this advice ignored it (with fatal consequences), most organisms heed Pericles’ words. [...] In
fact, the first account of a circadian rhythm dates to about 100 years after Pericles gave his sage advice, in a description of the rhythmic opening and closing of the leaves of the tamarind tree by the Greek Androsthenes in the 4th century B.C. (Moore-Ede et al. 1982).
Harmer, S. L., Panda, S., & Kay, S. A. (2001). Molecular bases of circadian rhythms. Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 17(1), 215-253.
Zucker had read Richter ’s article and come to believe that a site important for circadian rhythmicity was present in the anterior hypothalamus. Richter also had suggested that this site might be “near the ventromedial nucleus.” Of course, Zucker, with his firm command of neuroanatomy, might not have realized that the ventromedial hypothalamus is not in the anterior hypothalamus
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Zucker’s involvement in a seminal contribution to the neuroanatomy of the mammalian circadian system is incongruous with his performance in neuroanatomy while a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He shared that his performance in neuroanatomy was so poor that one instructor suggested he consider leaving graduate school.
a guy who is known to be extremely bad at knowing spots in the brain: i found a new spot in the brain
Weaver, D. R. (1998). The suprachiasmatic nucleus: a 25-year retrospective. Journal of biological rhythms, 13(2), 100-112.
The purpose of sleep has been the subject of numerous theories since the time of the ancient Greek philosophers (34). An extension of the findings reported here is that the restorative function of sleep may be due to the switching of the brain into a functional state that facilitates the clearance of degradation products of neural activity that accumulate during wakefulness.
how cool do you have to be to mention ancient greece in a STEM article
Xie, L., Kang, H., Xu, Q., Chen, M. J., Liao, Y., Thiyagarajan, M., ... & Nedergaard, M. (2013). Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain. science, 342(6156), 373-377.
