Posted on January 7, 2011 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Writing ,
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When you submit a paper to a scientific journal, you also need to send a cover letter to the editor of the journal. This is the first contact you will get with the editor, and is sometimes a deciding point in the process. The editor will choose, based on this letter and the abstract of your article, to further read your manuscript or not. It is thus extremely important to send a letter that will encourage the editor to consider your paper for publication. Here are three fundamental pieces of information I suggest you explain in your cover letter: Read More
Posted on January 4, 2011 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Productivity ,
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In his book The 4-Hour Workweek
, Tim Ferriss explains how to avoid working 8 hours a day for 40 years for a small income, and instead enjoy small mini-retirements and make lots of money. Read More
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Writing ,
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Sometimes, journals are run by professional editors, but usually scientific journals are just run by academics who take on the role of editor for a determined period of time. In any case, both send papers to peers for reviewing. The reviewers are chosen by the editor and are usually experts in the field Read More
Posted on November 26, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Productivity, Scientific Writing ,
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When you write a scientific article, you have to refer most of the content of your introduction and discussion to other articles published in the field. The database you use to search for other publications is probably PubMed, since it is widely used in the scientific community and contains hundred of millions of references. Read More
Posted on November 15, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Writing ,
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One important factor to avoid rejection is to decide on the right moment to publish a paper. You have to have enough data to tell a story that is complete, original and interesting, but at the same time, you don’t want to present too much data and overwhelm the reader or wait too long and take the risk to be scooped. Read More
Posted on November 12, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Writing ,
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The discussion can seem very difficult to write at first, but I figured that like almost everything in life, the key is to divide the process step-by-step and to prepare a detailed plan of the overall section. Once you have dissected it into 5 or 6 paragraphs, you’ll see that filling each one of them is actually quite easy. Here is an example you can use to write your own discussion. Read More
Posted on October 14, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Internet Tools, Scientific Productivity ,
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Gmail is google’s web-based email service, so as you can expect, using Gmail is really easy and the features of Gmail are so interactive that you can learn to use it in just a few minutes Read More
Posted on September 6, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Productivity ,
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It is hard to get things done in the lab if you are constantly disturbed or interrupted by stressful habits or annoying colleagues. Eliminate the sources of distraction and procrastination one by one if you want to gain in productivity and save more time to enjoy life outside the lab Read More
Posted on September 5, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Marketing ,
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Strategic marketing is based on defining competitive advantages for your products and services in order to define a marketing strategy. It’s an important factor for your company’s success because from your marketing strategy depend your allocation of resources and your final sales volume and leadership in your market Read More
Posted on September 4, 2010 by Sophie , Posted in Scientific Marketing ,
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Strategic marketing is the art of adapting the use of your company’s resources to increase sales and leadership in your market niche. It determines your choice of marketing mix and allocation of resources to find and keep customers Read More
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