Scientific Papers Guidance

Material¶

General Purpose¶

• Scientific Paper must be highly readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise.
• Papers must do more than simply present a chronological account of the research work. Rather, they must convince their audience that the research other scie presented is important, valid, and relevant tontists in the same field.

Structure¶

Finally, they structure the content in the body in theorem-proof fashion, stating first what readers must remember (for example, as the first sentence of a paragraph) and then presenting evidence to support this statement

Abstract¶

Summarize the motivation for, and the outcome of, the work in an abstract

Introduction¶

Clarifies the motivation for the work

• Context

  • Provide context to make reader familiar with the topic
  • Establish the importance of the work

• Need

  • Research gaps (Current community has vs What it wants)
    • If too many about literatures, add new section "State of the art"
  • Compelling Motivation
    • Anchor by time and space
  • e.g. To form a better view of the global distribution and infectiousness of this pathogen, we examined 1645 postmetamorphic and adult amphibians collected from 27 countries between 1984 and 2006 for the presence of . . .

• Task

  • How to address the need
  • Clarifies your contribution
  • e.g. To confirm this assumption, we studied the effects of a range of inhibitors of connexin channels, such as the connexin mimetic peptides Gap26 and Gap27 and anti-peptide antibodies, on calcium signaling in cardiac cells and HeLa cells expressing connexins.

• Object

  • Preview the remainder of the paper
  • e.g. This paper clarifies the role of CxHc on calcium oscillations in neonatal cardiac myocytes and calcium transients induced by ATP in HL-cells originated from cardiac atrium and in HeLa cells expressing connexin 43 or 26.

Materials and Methods (changeable for new method paper)¶

Provides sufficient detail for other scientists to reproduce the experiments presented in the paper.

Results and Discussion (changeable for new method paper)¶

• Present and discuss the research results
• State the message of each paragraph upfront: Convey in the first sentence what you want readers to remember from the paragraph as a whole.

Conclusion¶

• Presents the outcome of the work by interpreting the findings at a higher level of abstraction than the Discussion
• Relating these findings to the motivation stated in the Introduction
• do not restate what you have done or what the paper does. Instead, focus on what you have found and, especially, on what your findings mean.
• Make the Conclusion interesting and memorable for them.
• An idea of what could or should still be done (limitation) in relation to the issue addressed in the paper.