Abstract This text is designed to give the reader a helping hand in writing scientific paper. It provides generic advice on ways that paper can be improved. The focus following ethical and non-technical issues: (1) when start writing, what language; (2) how choose good title; (3) should included various sections (abstract, introduction, experimental, results, discussion, conclusions, supporting...

Good scientific writing is a skill researchers seek to acquire. Textbook literature provides guidelines to improve scientific writing, for instance, “use active voice when describing your own work”. In this paper we investigate to what extent researchers adhere to textbook principles in their articles. In our analyses we examine a set of selected principles which (i) are general and (ii) verifi...