Writing a paper? Have you addressed these issues?

Dear friends,

In my previous post I discussed the significance and essential steps towards developing a hypothesis. Today, let us consider the key questions that essentially require attention towards writing a good paper. Here, I am just enlisting few of them so that we at least enable the thought process that will lead us to creation of a great technical document. So before you start writing, please address these issues:

What should be the general structure?

What is the desired case structure in title (Small or capital)?

What is the significance of keywords in title?

How many words in an abstract and how to place them?

When should be abstract written?

What should be written in abstract?

How much should be written in abstract?

Do I need to write history (!!) of my research?

How to decide headings and sub-headings for my topic?

What do you mean by style of writing? Does it matter?

What should be the depth of technical details?

What do you mean by “results”?

How to represent results and failures?

How to overcome dilemma about “figure or Table”

How to number figure and tables?

How to caption figures and tables?

What is significance of discussion section?

How to write “Discussion”?

Where the “Discussion” section leads the reader?

How to cite literature in the body of the paper?

How to sequence the citations?

Who must I acknowledge in my paper?.........

……………..and many more!!

Let us discuss these issues in my future posts...till then keep viewing and

HAPPY RESEARCHING!!