Scientific Writings

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TIC Mind Map on Scientific Writings, created by Luis Andrés Foglia on 03/04/2018.
Luis Andrés Foglia
Mind Map by Luis Andrés Foglia, updated more than 1 year ago
Luis Andrés Foglia
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Scientific Writings
  1. Purpose:
    1. to educate
      1. to inform
        1. to record
          1. to persuade
            1. Audience: We should always consider the purpose of the writing, the audience it is destined to and the form we are going to give to it (be it an article, a journal, an online publication, newsletter, blog, grant application, etc.). The audience will demand clear communication in order to avoid misunderstandings or ending up ignoring the contents of the publication, because the audience is not reading for entertainment but to increase understanding and scientific knowledge. The audience of a scientific writing will usually be other fellow scientists.
            2. English in SW
              1. 9 Kinds of words: English is really simple which has 9 kinds of words (or parts of speech). In other words, out of all the thousands of words there are in English, all of them could be placed in 9 different categories.
                1. 4 kinds of phrases and 2 kinds of clauses: after knowing about these 9 word categories, one should only know how to group these words into phrases and clauses
                  1. 6 kinds of sentences: after combining phrases and clauses into sentences, these sentences can fall into 6 possible types
                  2. Organization
                    1. Organization: this is a key element to avoid problems because “confused thinking leads to confused writing”, so the path to simplicity begins with the organization of one’s thoughts.
                      1. IMRAD (or Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion): this is the most common type of organization used for scientific papers. Another kind can be IRDAM
                        1. Communication: for communication to occur we need to broadcast information but also to make sure it is received and understood and it all should be done through clear writing
                        2. Before writing a Scientific article, one must:
                          1. 1. establish the purpose of the written piece 2. determine de audience 3. list all ideas and key points one would like to include 4. group related ideas and arrange materials in subsections from general to specific or from known to unknown. 5. start by listing major categories of information in a logical way (using IMRAD format for scientific papers) 6. list two or more subordinate concepts or categories of information (if one category has a much larger number of subcategories, one may need to break it into two or more categories) 7. use letter or Roman numeral systems (though one should not worry much about this unless we are working on a large document or book) 8. use indent, bullets or hyphens to identify subcategories.
                            1. and finally
                              1. 1. when the outline is completed, one should revise it and look at it critically to make sure it makes sense. 2. Complex concepts: they should be presented step by step, from general to specific and from the known to the unknown 3. Discussions: they may follow the opposite path, that is, from specific to general 4. Road maps: create one and follow it as a way to make sure you will not lose any readers along the way
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