Scientific Writing Best Practices for Researchers

Learn international writing conventions and techniques and make your manuscript submission-ready for top scientific journals with writing tips, advice, and guidelines from one of the industry’s leading publishers.

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Academic writing is precise and targeted to a specific readership. When you’re drafting an academic manuscript, adopting standard conventions of scientific writing while also ensuring that your research has an engaging story, will not only improve the chances of your manuscript passing through desk screening but will impress journal editors too.

In this course, you’ll learn all about the international standards and conventions of scientiﬁc writing and develop techniques to help you with the writing process. Learn how to structure an article using the IMRaD format, use images for impact, and explain how your research has contributed to your field of study in a way that makes it stand out from the crowd. You’ll also learn how search engines work, how you can optimize your manuscript for them, and make your research rank higher on Google. At the end of the course, you’ll know how to write an engaging, informative, and linguistically superior scientific paper. You’ll also learn how to enhance your word choices, adapt a better tone, format your manuscript perfectly, and more! Each module will be explained via an interactive video followed by a short quiz to help you apply what you’ve learnt and strengthen your understanding.

Scientific Writing Best Practices for Researchers

Course content

18 sections | 75 lessons

Module 1: Writing the article that the journal editor wants to publish

Module 2: What you can expect to find in the author guidelines

Module 3: Manuscript formatting services

Module 4: Key information

Module 5: Writing sequence

Module 6: Writing iteratively

Module 7: The discussion in the context of the larger paper

Module 8: Spelling and style

Module 9: Formal language and consistent use of vocabulary

Module 10: Economic writing and limitation to what is relevant

Module 11: Objectivity, courtesy and modesty

Module 12: Use of tenses, structuring phrases and syntax

Module 13: Write to be understood with minimum effort

Module 14: Search Engine Optimization and Google Rankings

Module 15: Google AdWords Keyword Planner

Module 16: Translation into English

Module 17: Getting a colleague’s opinion of your article

Module 18: Best practices in writing scientific articles – final exam

Scientific Writing Best Practices for Researchers

Module 1: Writing the article that the journal editor wants to publish5 Lessons

Module 1: Writing the article that the journal editor wants to publish

Module 2: What you can expect to find in the author guidelines2 Lessons

Module 2: What you can expect to find in the author guidelines

Module 3: Manuscript formatting services2 Lessons

Module 3: Manuscript formatting services

Module 4: Key information9 Lessons

Module 4: Key information

Module 5: Writing sequence7 Lessons

Module 5: Writing sequence

Module 6: Writing iteratively3 Lessons

Module 6: Writing iteratively

Module 7: The discussion in the context of the larger paper2 Lessons

Module 7: The discussion in the context of the larger paper

Module 8: Spelling and style3 Lessons

Module 8: Spelling and style

Module 9: Formal language and consistent use of vocabulary2 Lessons

Module 9: Formal language and consistent use of vocabulary

Module 10: Economic writing and limitation to what is relevant5 Lessons

Module 10: Economic writing and limitation to what is relevant

Module 11: Objectivity, courtesy and modesty6 Lessons

Module 11: Objectivity, courtesy and modesty

Module 12: Use of tenses, structuring phrases and syntax8 Lessons

Module 12: Use of tenses, structuring phrases and syntax

Module 13: Write to be understood with minimum effort5 Lessons

Module 13: Write to be understood with minimum effort

Module 14: Search Engine Optimization and Google Rankings5 Lessons

Module 14: Search Engine Optimization and Google Rankings

Module 15: Google AdWords Keyword Planner3 Lessons

Module 15: Google AdWords Keyword Planner

Module 16: Translation into English4 Lessons

Module 16: Translation into English

Module 17: Getting a colleague’s opinion of your article3 Lessons

Module 17: Getting a colleague’s opinion of your article

Module 18: Best practices in writing scientific articles – final exam1 Lessons

Module 18: Best practices in writing scientific articles – final exam