Category Archives: Writing

How to Deal with Rejection

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

So after last week, you’ve picked what journal to submit to, and you wait (and wait and wait) to see whether your paper is accepted.  When the day finally comes, your paper hasn’t been accepted.  And if you’re like me, … Continue reading →

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Where to Submit an Article

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Since we seem to be talking about scientific writing this month, the question of where to submit your article arises.  Now the easiest thing to do is to look through the list of references you used and see which journal(s) … Continue reading →

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Scientific Jargon

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Following up on last week‘s post on the book Scientific English by Day and Sakaduski which has some useful lists of “Problem Words and Expressions” and “Words and Expressions to Avoid,” this week I present a list of terms that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Scientific English

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

On occasion I plan to review books on the blog.  Some will be of professional interest; others will be of general science interest.  I doubt if too many of them will be for fun (unless I find a really good … Continue reading →

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Journal Citations and Impact Factor

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last week, I talked about H-Index which is a metric for measuring the impact an author has in his field.  This week, I will discuss Impact Factor (IF) which is one way to measure the impact a journal has in … Continue reading →

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H-Index

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

As I mentioned last week, I decided that there wasn’t enough interesting about controlled vocabulary to fill up a whole month of posts so I’ve decided to switch topics for this week and next to journal metrics.  The first metric … Continue reading →

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More Controlled Vocabulary

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

As I mentioned last week, my original theme for the month was to go over controlled vocabulary such as the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) used in Scitation and IEEE Xplore, the Mathematics Subject Classification (MCS) used in MathSciNet, … Continue reading →

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Presenting your Data

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Now that you have decided how to organize your data, how do you present it?  Today’s information is based in part on A.V. Abela‘s popular Chart Chooser diagram which is also available in an interactive form.  Although the chart chooser … Continue reading →

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Organizing Data in your Paper

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last time, I mentioned that if you have multiple experiments that you should decide on an order and then stick to that order.  So how do you decide on an order?  Let’s say this is your data You might decide … Continue reading →

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Writing and Fractals

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last time I mentioned that the four main parts of a scientific article are Introduction, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.  This is all fine and dandy when you’re writing a 12-20 page paper, but what if you’re writing something longer like … Continue reading →

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