Questions tagged [writing]
For questions on the process of writing. For questions on the content of writing, use [writing-style].
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Techniques for writing papers with dyslexia
What are techniques for writing well/improving your writing/writing faster when you have dyslexia for highly complex and deep material?
For this question I am specifically asking about techniques that ...
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Why do most published papers hit the maximum page limit exactly?
Most published papers have a number of pages equals to the maximum page limit of their corresponding conference! Is there an unwritten rule that makes authors enforce this? Should aspiring researchers ...
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How to add scientific names of birds to manuscript?
A common task in scientific writing is adding scientific names after the English name. This is a highly laborious task with a lot of room for error. It seems remarkable that nobody has come up with ...
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How to make an entire section as a conjecture?
I was writing a research paper and solved a problem inside it. To solve the problem for a specific case, I need to assume something to be true (I'm now sure about that) and then write a set of proofs ...
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How to Develop a Daily Habit of Critical Thinking and Writing During PhD? [closed]
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I'm currently in my third year of a PhD program focused on geometrical fluid dynamics. As my research often involves complex coding and theoretical work, I face frequent ...
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How do you cite an entire magazine/periodical?
I have a class where I am supposed to talk about advertising in magazines, and I can't find any information on how to cite the entire magazine/periodical. I have to talk about the trends I generally ...
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How deep should I check references of a papers I am going to cite?
I am a new researcher who just started writing scientific papers and am concerned about checking the papers I am planning to cite. When citing a specific paper, I always try to read most of the cited ...
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What do I do if I cant find a proper basis for my methods of experimentation?
I am currently a senior high school student whose study is about producing homemade paper using coconut husks and testing for their certain properties. However, most studies that I have come across ...
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Writing graduate,undergraduate or research level math textbooks?
I know that writing textbooks is an art in itself, as opposed to writing research papers. Where can I find a good source for learning to write this type of book at the undergraduate, postgraduate, ...
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How to find the Ph.D. thesis of Sir Roger Penrose? [duplicate]
I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis. I like to take inspiration from the writing of people I have admired my whole student life. The idea is to take inspiration from how people wrote many ...
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What section of PhD thesis should my standpoint be in? [closed]
My research is at the intersection of technology and autism (but it's mostly technology focused). I'm approaching things from a particular standpoint of autism (i.e. neuroafirmative, neurocosmopolitan,...
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Academic advisor asks me to rewrite text (too?) many times
I have to write a report about my academic progress every year, upload it in my university account (before May 15) and schedule a meeting with my thesis committee (before May 31).
I started working on ...
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In which section of a paper/thesis to report tercile split and dummy coding of variable? [closed]
I'm writing my thesis in psychological research. On one variable I did a tercile split because in other empirical work it is often done so and literature says that most likely there will be effects on ...
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In which section to introduce control variables in thesis?
In a master's thesis in psychology, in which section should I introduce the control variables used in analyses?
The rationale for the inclusion of control variables in my study was based on prior ...
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How to find a co-author for a paper I can’t complete?
I am writing a mathematical paper, and I have been able to complete 2/3 of the paper’s main proof. However, I have been stuck with the last third for more weeks than I can count, and I am getting to ...
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Should I include papers in a literature review that might overshadow my own results?
I'm composing a literature review on the use of air bubbling carriers in direct contact membrane distillation. I've encountered various papers with promising findings, some of which might overshadow ...
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"Inaccurate Content in Literary Analysis"
I've received a couple of literary analyses that quotes dialogue and refers to events in the short story that literally doesn't occur. How does one evaluate such submissions?
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How to write a paper with word count limit? [closed]
What your preferred approach to writing a paper with a word count limit?
The two obvious approach are to
Try to write so that you don't exceed the word limit in the first place
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Should the information within a caption be repeated into the main text?
My understanding is that a caption should be here to help someone read a caption independently from the text (without reading the paper/book/etc for example).
This question answers whether a long ...
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Do you write about known code bugs in your publications?
I am a PhD candidate working with a large computer code (my code plus others, well over 100,000 lines). I am starting to realize that the code will always have bugs in it, no matter what I do. I'm in ...
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Writing a B.Sc. thesis with only failed results
I'm writing my B.Sc thesis about analysing coin cell batteries that I made by hand. Most of them give off voltage when I test them with a multimeter, but when I try to do a formation cycle I get bad ...
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Is there a way to stop students using AI to generate essays?
A friend of mine teaches German at a university outside the EU and has observed a rise of the quality of essays written by students, comparing the same years of study: first-year students now compared ...
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What opportunities are there to write casual articles in math?
I am wondering how to find good opportunities in editorials that publish work to educate younger readers and invite them to be curious about mathematics. For context, I have recently produced many ...
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Question about making footnotes for material taken from a class handout that has original sources
This is my first time writing a paper that requires footnotes, and in the instructions the professor has stated he wants the exact reference when we use materials from one of his class handouts. An ...
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Researchers nowadays communicate via screens, not papers. LaTeX is not the right tool to write for screens. Why is it still the go-to for writing?
Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much more useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching ...
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My footnotes are too long and too many due to my anxiety. How to shorten/reduce them?
I am a historian and I have noticed over the last few years that my footnotes have become too long. It goes so far that for a recent article manuscript the word count of my footnotes is only slightly ...
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How many related concepts should I try to fit into a research article?
When writing a journal article, I've noticed I have a habit of name-dropping concepts that are related to my argument. This has the benefit of increasing the links between my paper and other research, ...
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Etiquette regarding mathematical writing
This is a question about etiquette regarding writing mathematical papers, but I feel like this venue is more appropriate than MathOverflow (though I could be mistaken). The question is as follows:
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How to Properly Reference Equation Steps from Source X in Your Work?
I want to avoid writing something like:
However, calculating the variable X and solving this equation requires iteration using the Newton-Raphson method [22, p. 45][15, p. 152]:
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What is the verb for first-authorship?
I am helping someone write his CV. In the publications section, he wrote the following.
Authored an article titled "Dense Neural Network ...
Now, he was the first/main author for said article. ...
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Seeking Guidance on Comparing Algorithm Performance Metrics in Research Compilation
I am currently working on a research problem where the existing literature proposes an algorithm that is tested on data generating 100,000 integer values within the range of 0 to 20. The common ...
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May have embellished my CV and resume by mistake after I was admitted to MA and Ph.D programs. Could either of my degrees be revoked? [duplicate]
I am a doctoral candidate in a Ph.D program right now.
I reviewed my old resumes recently to see if there was anything relevant I could include from undergrad (as I am about to graduate with my Ph.D ...
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Publishing in a field that I am not an expert in
To give you some backstory, there is a particular publically-available hospital dataset that has been published about by other groups. I have recently come up with a novel machine learning method for ...
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs
I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Problems evaluating a system with unexplainable results
I am writing a master's thesis in a Machine Learning domain.
I created a system and I am now testing it.
I designed most of my system while validating on benchmark set A. The results are good and ...
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A name for the subsection about the paper structure
If one wants to have a separate name for the subsection which goes like, 'Section 2 is dedicated to... In Section 3, we discuss... Finally, in Section 4...', then what is the best option? "...
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Asking professor about extending word limit for term paper
I'm currently in my 3rd semester of my Bachelors program and have to write a term paper with a word range of 4000 words ± 5-10%.
I'll be writing about Zero‑Trust Network Architectures and the way they ...
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Do most conference papers get written last minute?
When I began my PhD (in a STEM field; somewhat relevant), I had heard from a few people that most papers in my field get written at the last minute. I kind of took that as a personal quirk that those ...
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how to indicate permission when reusing a figure from a published study [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding the inclusion of a figure in my grant proposal.
I followed the necessary steps and obtained permission, which was granted free of charge. I ...
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using a simple figure in a published paper in a grant proposal
I want to use a figure from a published paper (in a Wiley journal) in a grant proposal. Since the raw data is not available, I have directly copy-pasted the image of the figure. In addition to ...
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Can I provide citations in the abstract of a project proposal [duplicate]
I am writing a project proposal for the first time but I am in dilemma whether I should add the citation in the abstract as well or not. Any suggestions?
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How to shorten references [duplicate]
How to shorten the reference format to maximum one line per reference so that it fits to the guidelines. I have already used APA format. But is there any other format for doing so?
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Should I decline a PhD offer due to writing problems?
I finished my masters with a good GPA, it is an 4.0 equivalent to US grading system. However, I know that a PhD is heavily related to writing a lot and writing is by far the most important thing in ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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How to write a good introduction for a software package in a paper?
There are several algorithms in my research area, and I'm the first to implement them all together in a R package with Rcpp. I'm working on a paper in which I'd like to compare those algorithms as ...
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Conference paper collaboration problem, course of action
A while ago I presented at a conference where a recent PhD gave a presentation co-authored with his professor. The talk, which was about a topic similar to that of my own talk, was good. The presenter ...
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In a small dissertation text of 3 or 4 pages, is it possible to divide the text into sections and/or subchapters?
I'm going to do a public contest whose proof is a dissertation text. To better organize ideas and present them clearly, I intend to divide them into a few sections. However, if they reject the text ...
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Does it make sense to send fanmail to scientists whose works I enjoyed? How to make it make sense? [duplicate]
While writing my PhD I've come across some writings that were OUTSTANDINGLY well written, handy and helpful.
Obviously I cited them, but as I understand, thesis citations aren't counted by various ...
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If you introduce an abbreviation/acronym in the abstract, should you reintroduce it in the introduction to be safe? [duplicate]
For instance, say I introduce the term "macular degeneration" in the abstract and follow it with (MD) to establish the abbreviation. Should I just use (MD) from then on, including in the ...
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MSc Dissertation - Model may have been flawed from the start, how do I deal with writing about it?
I'm currently writing my MSc dissertation for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. My university allocates a 3-month period for the whole project.
At this point in the project, I realised my reasoning ...
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