Article Writing Tips for. .ppt

Article writing tips

1. Writing Tips For
Research/Review
Papers
2076/5/17

2. Our writing should provide…
•You are more knowledgeable,
•Analytic, and
•Sophisticated about the topic
Your paper will be rejected if, your writing is
• ungrammatical,
• unclear,
•Like opinion-page,
• journalistic (not analytical).

3. Writing tips…
•Favor the active tense
•Keep sentences short (between 18-24 words)
•Try to make sentences by Sub+Verb+Obj.
•The passive voice is avoided by good writers
•Avoid jargon
•Avoid unnecessary words. For instance, in most cases,
change to “in order to” to “whether or not” to
“whether” “is equal to” to “equals”
•Make simple and understanding sentences to readers

4. Organization of the Paper
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Make a organization of paper first
1)Introduction
2)……
3)……..
4)………
5)Conclusions and recommendations
6)References
Your readers are busy and impatient. No reader will ever read the
whole thing from start to finish. Readers skim. You have to make it
easy for them to skim. Most readers want to know your basic result.

5. The Introduction Section
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•The foot-in-the-door parts of your written work is the abstract
(the summary of the paper, which you will write at the very end
once you have actual results) and introduction. Write them
clearly and concisely!
•The introduction should start with what you do in this paper, the
major contribution.
•Upper limit is a page or two (at most!) single-spaced.
•The question you are trying to address (stating the hypothesis to
be tested directly is a good way to do this)
•Why we should care about this question (Is it an unproven
theoretical result? An important policy question? Why should we
care from an economic perspective?).
•What your contribution is? How are you answering the question?
•What are your main results? Explain briefly how your findings
differ from previous work and what the implications of these
findings are.

6. The Literature Review Section
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•It is not necessary to cite every single sentence in the
literature
•What is the main point of the article, and how does it relate to
your topic? Do other authors offer a similar position? An
opposing one?
•Literature review has two functions.
1)The first is simply to demonstrate your familiarity with
scholarly work on your topic to provide a survey of what you
have read, trace the development of important themes and
draw out any tensions in prior research.
2)The second function is to lay the foundations for your paper,
to provide motivation.
 Don't title your literature review section as literature review!

7. Thank
You