1, set the write time.
Set aside a fixed writing time on the schedule and stick to it. A Ph.D. student at Yale goes to the lab at eight o'clock every morning to write for an hour or two. Because there is no one else in the lab at 8: 00 in the morning, it is very suitable for concentrating on writing and is more efficient in the morning. Completing this will refresh you all day. In any case, writing is by no means accomplished overnight, but requires daily exercise.
2. Make an outline.
Before you start writing, you need an outline to clear your mind. First, write down any key points you think this paper needs to cover on a piece of paper, and then arrange them according to the structure of the paper: which ones are in the method part? What is in the introduction and discussion section? After completing the outline, you may wish to discuss it with your colleagues and tutors and make appropriate adjustments according to their opinions. In addition, you can also list the magazines you want to contribute at this stage.
3, draft, put down writing.
Next, you can start writing a draft. Your outline is the basis of your writing. At this stage, you don't need to consider whether the words are appropriate or not and whether the sentence patterns are coherent. The most important thing at present is to write out all the ideas in your outline, and don't modify them while writing.
4. Let's talk about methods and results first.
It is undoubtedly the most important part of the paper to start with materials, methods and results. The method description should be as detailed and accurate as possible, and the perspective of each paragraph should be as consistent as possible (for example, don't mix the experimenter's perspective "we" with the experimenter's perspective "the experimental" as the subject). The description of the result part should also be concise and clear, objective as far as possible, avoiding nominalization of verbs and avoiding subjective descriptors such as obvious and obvious.
5. Then write an introduction.
It's time to write an introduction The introduction should be gradual. The position of your research in academic circles, the connection with other theories, and why your research problem is very important; Then make clear the scope of your research and which documents provide clues for your research; Finally, I briefly describe my research and summarize the findings of the research. Never assume that everyone can see the importance of your research. Write it down and attract your readers to read it.
6. Finally, the discussion part.
Finally, discuss. Summarize your findings. Why is your discovery important? Are these findings consistent with your hypothesis? How do they contribute to the existing theory? At the same time, it can refute the possible doubts in the discussion part. Finally, consider the limitations of the study, possible problems and feasible solutions.
7. Repeated revision.
Now the first draft of the paper has been completed, but it needs to be revised repeatedly before it can be published. Modification can be divided into two levels, one is macro and the other is micro. Macro modification refers to structural coherence. By comparing your outline, you can find out which points are not mentioned in the paper, or are misplaced and not practiced enough. After revising according to the outline, read through the article again to check whether the writing logic is clear. After the macro-modification, you can start the micro-modification, that is, the modification of words and sentences.
Besides basic grammatical mistakes, are there too many subjective words? Is the sentence too long? Is the paragraph arrangement reasonable? Try to modify from the middle or the end of the article, which will make you find more mistakes and inappropriateness. After you can't find the problem yourself, send the paper to others and get their feedback for further revision.
There is no trick to reviewing, just over and over again. When you submit a literary theory to a magazine, you are likely to receive more suggestions for further revision. Publishing is undoubtedly a grinding process. But back to the initial suggestion, in addition to real experiments, fund applications and reading, write for an hour or two every day, and you are likely to gradually become the fastest person in the laboratory to publish periodicals.