{"id":5724,"date":"2014-11-18T03:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/events\/tips-on-organization-structure-and-language-usage-in-research-manuscripts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:18:46","slug":"tips-on-organization-structure-and-language-usage-in-research-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/tips-on-organization-structure-and-language-usage-in-research-manuscripts","title":{"rendered":"Tips on organization, structure, and language usage in research manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">This post discusses the tips shared with the graduate students at Kyunghee University Global Campus, Suwon, Korea, July 8 &amp; 10, 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In a continuing relationship between Editage and Kyunghee University, John D. McDonald conducted 2 one-day workshops at their university. Due to the number of expected participants, one full-day session was repeated to two different groups of (primarily) science-based graduate students.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The focus of these \u00a0full-day workshops conducted by Editage Korea on July 8 &amp; 10, 2014 was \u201cHow to write a paper in English\u201d, which due to the needs of the graduate students that were attending, was to focus on core organizational concerns and common structural and language problems when writing in English, and then to provide some practical examples of how to improve their writing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Attended by over 140 students over the two days, the atmosphere of the workshop remained positive throughout. Key components of the session included: a brief discussion of some trends and reasons for research writing, a discussion of organizational and ethical concerns in the writing process, and practical tips pertaining to key aspects of language and styles used in journal writing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">As is normal for sessions of this type, John began the session by discussing a key problem for writers in English\u2014not having a plan when they beginning to write, which also gives novice writers a great deal of stress. Central to this \u2018map\u2019 is that writers need to know where they are going to submit their work, as this affects everything from level of vocabulary used, to formatting of the work, to the actual presentation of key concepts so that they target reader can process the information efficiently. To streamline the submission process, and due to the fact journals generally prefer that writers succeed in their task, publishing companies typically have a website full of information about key guidelines (e.g.: <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/page\/4authors\/index.html\">http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/page\/4authors\/index.html<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 638px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-wysiwyg\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/1_0.png\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 638px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Figure 1: <\/strong>The initial step in the writing process is to understand where the work is being submitted.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Another key problem for non-native writers is a lack of understanding of the structure of an English-language paper. The standard structure of information (IMRaD) was presented, along with the concept that English is \u2018top-loaded\u2019 at the paragraph level and \u2018front-loaded\u2019 at the sentence level, which provided these non-native writers (especially in Korea) a new tool for producing stronger writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">As a specific example of this concept of organization, the 3 steps necessary for an Introduction were discussed, with a special focus placed on the importance of clearly defining the research area so that your paper becomes a \u2018solution\u2019 to the problem stated.\u00a0 These concepts were supported with examples from published materials, and continued through all sections of a research paper. During this session, John gave repeated advice on how to use appropriate verbs and verb tenses, active and passive voice, and how the strength of the verb can affect the perception of stated results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In terms of style and formatting, a number of differences between English and Korean were presented, including: putting a space between a number and its unit (5 mM), writing the long form of an abbreviation before the short form (signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the proper use of dashes (6\u20139 m, not 6~9 m), among others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">More importantly, there was a discussion of using appropriate referencing style when submitting your work to the journal. Examples of styles were given (see Figure 2). And though not related to the actual content being presented, using the wrong style was described as \u2018dressing inappropriately for a job interview\u2019 as the reviewer knows that the paper will not be accepted before they begin reading. Style (first impressions) are important.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 638px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-wysiwyg\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2_0.png\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 638px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Figure 2: <\/strong>Overview of common referencing formats. It is important to note that there are quite a number of variations within these styles, and that the author needs to conform to journal standards when submitting their paper.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">These workshops appeared to be well-received, with the majority of attendees remaining engaged throughout the day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2408],"event_type":[2357],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5724","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","event_type-workshop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tips on organization, structure, and language usage in research manuscripts | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a continuing relationship, Kyunghee University, Korea has hosted a number of sessions with Editage on research writing. 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