Yateendra Joshi

Yateendra Joshi recommends a list of interesting and practical resources on academic writing for researchers.

Following this brief explanation of what plagiarism is – essentially, ‘borrowing’ pieces of text published elsewhere and incorporating them into your article without any indication that you have done…

In the context of writing research papers, observing the conventions means that journal editors, reviewers, and – eventually – your readers will focus on your message and will not be sidetracked or,…

If the idea of writing a research paper is making you anxious, this article is for you. Learn how you can make a dent in your writing project by creating the first draft of your article. 

When it comes to writing a research proposal, an assignment, or an academic paper, you tend to worry: you wonder whether you are making errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word usage. To…

If you want others to cite your paper, you should make sure they read it first. Let us assume that the title and the abstract of your paper have convinced your peers that they should see your paper.…

You have been working hard on your research project for months and the data it has generated are promising. You feel now is the right time to start writing your first research paper, but you have…

In writing a research paper, you mention, or cite, papers written by other researchers. For example, instead of describing in detail the method you used, you simply provide a reference to a paper…

This post provides basic information for those planning to submit a paper to PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA).

This article explains some points of style in scientific writing related to using negative exponents in expressing rates.