results and discussion section will be first author, followed by the student involved with writing other sections in descending order of contribution. Dr. Stewart is last author. Dr. Stewart is expected to review the publication at all stages (abstract, outline, drafts, and final draft), provide editorial guidance (spelling & grammar, organization, graphics), help guide your research plan, and analyze the results and discussion. Dr. Stewart is not an English professor. He gets frustrated when he sees too many typographical errors. Students are encouraged to visit the UTEP University Writing Center between each draft to improve the writing before sending it to Dr. Stewart. In the case were a student is not making progress on a paper, it may be necessary for Dr. Stewart to take over. In that case, Dr. Stewart will become the first author. Students should recognize that this is a bad sign. It may indicate that dismissal from MERG is imminent. Communicate with Dr. Stewart about your writing progress regularly to avoid this possibility. Format Formatting can be the difference between your research being taken seriously and your research being treated like a student lab report by reviewers. Research papers are to be written in Microsoft Word. A manuscript template is available on Dropbox. This document will be periodically updated, so make a new copy each time you write a new article. Read the book “Writing Read on how to write a scientific paper [6]. Science” [2]. Whiteside’s article Writing a 16(15). Advanced Materials, [6] Whitesides, G. M., 2004, “Whitesides' Group: Paper”, Figure 4 Styles Pane – In the manuscript template, custom have been defined that will help you format your “Styles” manuscript as depicted in Figure 4. The Header 2, and Header must be styles “Title, Header 1, 3” applied when writing your manuscript. Major headings such as the “Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Models, Results, and are assigned to Header 1. Sub headings Discussion” that exist instead of the major headings are assigned to Header 2. We assign Sub-Sub headings to Header 3. Never go lower than Header 3.
results and discussion section will be first author, followed by the student involved with writing other sections in descending order of contribution. Dr. Stewart is last author. Dr. Stewart is expected to review the publication at all stages (abstract, outline, drafts, and final draft), provide editorial guidance (spelling & grammar, organization, graphics), help guide your research plan, and analyze the results and discussion. Dr. Stewart is not an English professor. He gets frustrated when he sees too many typographical errors. Students are encouraged to visit the UTEP University Writing Center between each draft to improve the writing before sending it to Dr. Stewart. In the case were a student is not making progress on a paper, it may be necessary for Dr. Stewart to take over. In that case, Dr. Stewart will become the first author. Students should recognize that this is a bad sign. It may indicate that dismissal from MERG is imminent. Communicate with Dr. Stewart about your writing progress regularly to avoid this possibility. Format Formatting can be the difference between your research being taken seriously and your research being treated like a student lab report by reviewers. Research papers are to be written in Microsoft Word. A manuscript template is available on Dropbox. This document will be periodically updated, so make a new copy each time you write a new article. Read the book “Writing Science” [2]. Read Whiteside’s article on how to write a scientific paper [6]. [6] Whitesides, G. M., 2004, “Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper”, Advanced Materials, 16(15). Figure 4 – Styles Pane In the manuscript template, custom “Styles” have been defined that will help you format your manuscript as depicted in Figure 4. The styles “Title, Header 1, Header 2, and Header 3” must be applied when writing your manuscript. Major headings such as the “Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Models, Results, and Discussion” are assigned to Header 1. Sub headings that exist instead of the major headings are assigned to Header 2. We assign Sub-Sub headings to Header 3. Never go lower than Header 3.
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