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Tips for Writing Readable Articles

s are best written after the facts, once you actually have something to abstract: write down the key points (for example by listing each paragraph’s first sentence), tie them together, add an opening sentence, then edit drastically. Sometimes, though, you may have to write and submit an abstract to a conference long before the paper is written or the research even carried out. Such promissory a...

Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers

Can you identify a single colleague who has not had a manuscript returned with the comment ‘‘needs to be reviewed by a native English speaker’’? Many researchers receive this response even after translation or revision by an official translator or a native English-speaking coauthor. Over the past four years, while conducting my doctoral, and now my postdoctoral, work here in Brazil, I have been...

Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers ∗

When I read your term papers, I look for your ability to motivate your question using economic logic, your ability to critically analyze the past literature, and your ability to recognize empirical problems as they arise. In particular, it is important that your term paper demonstrates that you are more knowledgeable, analytic, and sophisticated about the economics of health or development econ...

Tips for Writing (and Reading) Methodological Articles

One reason many methodological articles are not very intelligible to their readers is because the content is often inherently difficult. However, a contributing factor in some cases is the tacit assumption that rules of good writing cease to apply when writing about statistics. The authors of this article argue that good writing becomes even more important as the content of the article becomes ...