Sunday, June 29, 2008

A Well Planned Writing #1

7 Writing Principles

Introduction What did you do? Why?
Materials & Methods How did you do it
Results What did you find
Discussions Your interpretation of results
Summary Statement of main findings
Acknowledgements Who helped
References Details of reference cited

Source: SCIENTIST MUST WRITES: A GUIDE TO BETTER WRITING FOR SCIENTIST, ENGINEERS AND STUDENTS, Robert Barrass, 1978 (old edition), Chapman & Hall.

I found that I need to upgrade my writing skills especially when sometime I felt that I am OK with my writing and most of the time I felt that I’m doing it the wrong way. First I must read and try to analyze any interested papers/journals and later divide its contents into those 7 principles. I believed theoretical papers would probably cause me more than 2 weeks or months for extracting the contents.

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