science writing
How (not) to write scientific literature
Submitted by Thomas Hesselberg on Wed, 19/09/2007 - 15:07Most people that have studied a science subject at university, has had the pleasure of reading scientific papers and despair over these papers rigid structure and uninspiring language. All of us probably agree that the majority of scientific papers are not pleasurable reading.
The biologist Kaj Sand-Jensen has written an entertaining and ironic little (scientific) paper on the matter, where he gives advice to scientists on how to write consistently boring scientific literature.
He gives the following 10 recommendations
(1) Avoid focus. Try to hide the aim of the research by asking a multitude of questions and introducing several ideas scattered around the text.
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