Technical Writing for Publication

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Technical Writing for Publication

• Basic concepts regarding selection and
  organization of information

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Mission Impossible

• The style of writing depends strongly on the
• research area
• characteristics of the research
• experimental
• model and simulation based
• method or approach proposal
• theory
• applications
• journal or the conference
• purpose and audience of the article
• context of the article (high or low)

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Four Levels

• Article
• Section
• Paragraph
• Sentence

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Genre
A style of writing that is developed by a group
of people for a special purpose
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Audience

• The style of writing must be suited to the
  audience so that
• the audience understands
• how your research makes a contribution to your
  field
• the relevance of the contribution
• To make the point more clear you can
• delete unnecessary information
• clarify important connections between ideas,
  facts and
• supports

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Purpose of the Article

To make clear the specific contribution that the
research makes to the field
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Purpose of the Sections
Main Parts Purpose Title and
Abstract objectives, scope, method and
results Introduction significance and
relevance Materials and Methods reproducibility
and novelty Results novel results were
obtained Discussion Implications and
applications Conclusion summarize the main
results
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Paragraphing Conventions in RAs

• Topic Sentence
• Supports
• (Concluding Sentence)
• From general information to more specific
• information (Top-Down Organisation)

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Automation Lund University, Sweden
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Margaret Newman-Nowicka
Good style in writing is to respond to the
readers needs
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Automation Lund University, Sweden