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Abbreviating authors' names in a paper
I'm writing a rebuttal to a paper that was recently published. Since I refer to the authors very frequently, I've abbreviated their names to WW for their last names Williams and Wang (I made up these ...
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Is it possible to follow notations/terminologies from a previously published article in a new paper without re-explaining them (in Computer Science)?
As I understood correctly, in the field of computer science, there is no "standard notation" in scientific publications for explaining various aspects of a computer system. Even though in ...
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Conjunctive adverbs in academic writing
As scientists, researchers and scholars, how do you feel when you read a scientific document that contains a lot of conjunctive adverbs, like however, in addition, etc?
Does it sound non-scientific ...
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How to improve scientific writing skills?
What do you do to write better proposals, grants, and papers?
Do you think reading books about how to write scientific content is a good way to improve it?
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When did it become customary to eschew gender pronouns in scientific essays?
Anyone who's written a scientific essay knows that the use of he/she/him/her, etc are frowned-upon (except where necessary)
But where does this come from? When did it achieve (near) consensus? When ...
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Proper citation of equations in scientific papers - terminology
Most scientific papers refer to almost any formula that contains the "=" sign by the word "equation". Consider this case:
Let value = function(input) (1) where input is a known input value and value ...
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Introductory Structure of a Report Reviewing Established Knowledge
My question is set in the context of engineering and science. I wish to understand the contrast between the introductory structure for a report investigating developing/unproven research with the ...
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Style for first introduction sentence - citation required for lurid statement?
I'm trying to write my first introduction sentence, which should be catchy. I came up with a sentence along the lines of "imagine the world without this super thing, all these things wouldn't be ...
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