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Is it bad form to use the word "novel"“novel” when describing your own work in a paper?

Ideally any research paper should contain novel thoughts, ideas, procedures, observations, methods, etc. of some form or another - that. That being said, is it really necessary to remind the reader about it by using the word "novel", "revolutionary",words novel, revolutionary, or "never been done before"never been done before as opposed to just comparing it to existing studies and noting the differences between the two?

Is it bad form to use the word "novel" when describing your own work in a paper?

Ideally any research paper should contain novel thoughts, ideas, procedures, observations, methods, etc. of some form or another - that said, is it really necessary to remind the reader about it by using the word "novel", "revolutionary", or "never been done before" as opposed to just comparing it to existing studies and noting the differences between the two?

Is it bad form to use the word “novel” when describing your own work in a paper?

Ideally any research paper should contain novel thoughts, ideas, procedures, observations, methods, etc. of some form or another. That being said, is it really necessary to remind the reader about it by using the words novel, revolutionary, or never been done before as opposed to just comparing it to existing studies and noting the differences between the two?

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Is it bad form to use the word "novel" when describing your own work in a paper?

Ideally any research paper should contain novel thoughts, ideas, procedures, observations, methods, etc. of some form or another - that said, is it really necessary to remind the reader about it by using the word "novel", "revolutionary", or "never been done before" as opposed to just comparing it to existing studies and noting the differences between the two?