Essential Guide to Manuscript Writing for Academic Dummies

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  • Joyce Collins 3 weeks ago

     

    It might be daunting to writers when they start to write a manuscript, but they can do it through a clear pattern that will make it easy and professional. You need to start by choosing a narrow research topic and specifying your research question. Conduct an extensive literature review to know what has been done and what will be left unanswered by your work. Then make an outline based on IMRaD structure, which is: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion to ensure the logical structure. You should not care a lot about perfection when you write your first draft and the clarity is attained during revision. You can even seek guidance from the professionals who can help in manuscript writing for journal publication.  After writing, then polish your manuscript by editing it and by verifying grammar, coherence, references and formatting. Both Grammarly and reference managers can be used as aids. Make sure you are using the target journal specifications such as headings, word count, on-style referencing style and figure placement. Lastly, make sure to reread your work or use professional help to edit your work before submission. Even novices can create quality academic manuscripts that are fit to be published by practicing, being patient and with a proper structure in place.

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