Cannot thank you enough Dr. Andy, many professors cannot teach this stuff for an entire semester. But it's impressive how you can manage to put all this vital information in just 20 minutes in a precise and easy to understand fashion. You are truly a gifted instructor and communicator. Many thanks indeed from Uganda - East Africa
Great video. My paper was accepted in a journal on Monday after a major revision. Just awaiting the email for the article proof before publication. Advice that I can give to anyone writing for a journal: when reviewers ask for revisions, do them fully, quickly, and politely. Be patient and be prepared to wait.
I just started a PhD and am writing my first article. I really LOVE your videos; thank you for the contribution you are making to the science community. Your tips are super helpful!
I can't get over the fact that these videos are just incredibly helpful. Motivating to go on with academia while giving helpful advice to do so! Thank you!
Can't not think how to thank you Dr. Andy. It's been a long time that i was looking for someone to explain things u just said. From the bottom of my heart thank you ❤
Capitalizing on a good title, using an outlining/skeleton approach based on an industry template, & leveraging visual aids (graphs & tables) for flow is good advice & thinking of research writing as telling of a science STORY is brilliant for effective communication!
Although I am not (yet) a PhD student, what I have seen in some people's BA or MA essays is that they clearly have just not read enough essays or books in the field of what they are writing. You kind of are what you read. In my field (English), having your own voice in your narrative is quite important as it's not just listing data, but there are conventions of writing such essays and certain structures and methodologies, which after a while will sort of go into your system. And people just clearly don't read enough or observe closely enough the structure of the papers they should be reading. I recently read one book I had come to a bit late into my MA thesis (still writing it), but the style and methodology was so strong that I basically couldn't help imitate it when going over my second Chapter. I ended up writing 2 new pages at the start just in a similar style to explain my methodology.
Your videos are always helpful. One request is it would also be helpful if you make a video of writing an actual (demo) paper and demonstrating the actual writing process (data collection or writing from already collected data/literature). Not completely writing the whole paper ofcourse a demo or couple of sentences or maybe a paragraph for each section would be enough to get the idea. thanks!
Creating a template is a brilliant tip. I do it for everything. Writing a letter for work, create a template. Writing a report or a budget reconciliation, use a template. The effort put in on the first document really saves time for every subsequent document.
Hi Andy, as a future PhD student, finishing up undergrad, I really enjoy your content. Would you be willing to make videos on the process of finding the ideal graduate school and applying to graduate programs? i.e. how to know a graduate school is for you? How to make your grad school application stand out? Thank you so much for you advice, keep up the good work!
Coming from someone who just finished their MRes and applying into a doctorate porgramme, spending time to research about the reputation of the Uni's postgraduate programmes, their staff in the department/faculty that you are interested in, alumni, etc. is really useful in finding your fit. Also, I would look for integrated programmes - they provide an easier way to 'top-up' into a doctorate programme, i.e. your dissertation or final project for your MRes/MPhil can become the basis of your PhD thesis. This is what I chose. As for standing out, I found from my experience that great and consistent grades compounded with a great personality and proactive approach to academic work were paramount. The latter two, you can convey in your writing to the university or during a prelim interview.
A tip at least for math and physics: Your first journal submission should be a LaTeX file (of course) or a pdf file that was compiled from one. Though it should meet good formatting standards you do not need to adapt the article to fully fit the style of the journal at this stage---that comes later. Do yourself a favor and do not waste time on formatting your article to the style of a journal that may very well reject it.
@@pedroqueiros3314 that makes no sense. how can you write a coherent results section before you have prepared the results fig/tables. The results section is the objective description of your findings. The intro is simply the rationale for your study, which you should already have mostly written from the research proposal. As i said, the order i suggested is based on preparing the sections in an increasing order of requiring thinking., which is very helpful for new/inexperienced writers.
@@toothdoc8206 Before the preparation of tables/figures you already understand the underlying results. Sure, you may have generated some figures and tables for your own analysis but these rarely directly go into your final manuscript; instead you then process, summarize, etc your results into a reader-friendly visual (thus fig/tab prep coming last as I mentioned). Regarding the intro, sure if you are writing a research proposal you can do that, but often a PhD is inserted into a larger framework, where each student is responsible for a particular part of a project, reusing the same general research proposal used for the communal funding would not work.
To publish a peer-reviewed article is not that hard - I could even published three peer-reviewed papers from my Masters. But when it comes to my PhD trying to squeeze out a paper at a top-notch journal such as in Science and Nature; it took more than courage and writing skills. And without these high qualities papers as assets getting an academic position is like crossing over an ocean with a straw raft.
how do you get data to do original research without conducting field experiments? Are there data sources one can tap into? Can you list some of them? I am in the field of business and policy. thnx
Can you look into my friends paper "Manufacturing Bulk Nanocrystalline Al-3Mg Components Using Cryomilling and Spark Plasma Sintering" He is trying to improve his writing to that required for journals like Elsevier but is unsure how.
what is your advice on the rate of publishing needed in a year? i noticed that some phd students are like on a race to submit as many papers as possible maybe to have a higher chance of getting papers accepted. But is this a good strategy? or is it better to plan well and ensure that the paper has some useful content instead of just trying to repeat the topic in different ways? thank you.
Nice videoAndy! I was just wondering how to tackle authorship order. I mean… you should leave it to your supervisor/corresponding author (if he/she is well oriented in what was going on with the research project ofc) or you should propose it and sent first draft with your authorship order idea. You know how delicate this topic is in the academia, I’m curious about your opinion. Cheers
Hi Andy, thank you so much for these amazing tips! ❤️ Do you have comments or thoughts around publishing your own Master's thesis? Many thanks in advance! :)
I'm not convinced a single sentence is enough to express the significance of many papers. A paragraph would be more reasonable. Of course, that's what an abstract is for!
I have edited medical research papers for 13 years, and with all due respect, I take issue. For example, your "cut and paste" advice. This could get you accused of plagiarising, even if it is your own paper. Rather, if the experimental procedure is the same as another published paper, then you should cite that paper if it is accessible, and state differences where they exist. In addition, papers are best kept to about 3,500-4,500 words, so don't inflate with repetitions from previous papers. Writing a readable straightforward research paper is an art. Like all else in life and academia, most research papers are mediocre or worse, both in language and science. I am stopping your video at 10:56, because I can't listen to any more of it.
Thanks Andy for the video, very useful and structured as always! Have you wrote science letters, or papers that are smaller than article in terms of the content? Do you have video about types of science reports types?
@@arsalansaeed5418 so you’re not reinventing the wheel and wasting energy where you don’t need. Obviously there’s a balance and you need to become independent, but at the other end, you’re supposed to be learning in your PhD and if a supervisor gives you no advice they’re failing majorly at one of their core responsibilities (which is not uncommon)
@@arsalansaeed5418they really aren't, they learn the same things but take a long time doing do since they do it on their own, people with help just progress much much faster
I'd be a bit weary of following the example of existing research papers beyond the basic structure. In my experience, most scientists are not great writers.
Your comment or tip about copy and paste from your own research into the article should be cited or acknowledged - its robust and good academic habits to get into. It would be helpful to show how to write a paper not just a overview.
Step 1: make up a lie that holds up the state approved narrative Step 2: get all your likeminded friends to sign off on it Step 3: keep telling yourself you're on the right side of history
@@LeggattNZ I got the same advice from my community college direct report. He was wrong (if not misleading). It depends on your field. In my field (criminology), funding seems to be more common, and funding packages include APCs. I also found that most no-APC journals in criminology have zero impact factor.
Cannot thank you enough Dr. Andy, many professors cannot teach this stuff for an entire semester. But it's impressive how you can manage to put all this vital information in just 20 minutes in a precise and easy to understand fashion. You are truly a gifted instructor and communicator.
Many thanks indeed from Uganda - East Africa
I couldn’t agree more.
Great video. My paper was accepted in a journal on Monday after a major revision. Just awaiting the email for the article proof before publication. Advice that I can give to anyone writing for a journal: when reviewers ask for revisions, do them fully, quickly, and politely. Be patient and be prepared to wait.
I just started a PhD and am writing my first article. I really LOVE your videos; thank you for the contribution you are making to the science community. Your tips are super helpful!
I can't get over the fact that these videos are just incredibly helpful.
Motivating to go on with academia while giving helpful advice to do so!
Thank you!
Can't not think how to thank you Dr. Andy. It's been a long time that i was looking for someone to explain things u just said. From the bottom of my heart thank you ❤
Best content that should be used in every university!!
gotta save this vid for future reference ~
Capitalizing on a good title, using an outlining/skeleton approach based on an industry template, & leveraging visual aids (graphs & tables) for flow is good advice & thinking of research writing as telling of a science STORY is brilliant for effective communication!
Although I am not (yet) a PhD student, what I have seen in some people's BA or MA essays is that they clearly have just not read enough essays or books in the field of what they are writing. You kind of are what you read. In my field (English), having your own voice in your narrative is quite important as it's not just listing data, but there are conventions of writing such essays and certain structures and methodologies, which after a while will sort of go into your system. And people just clearly don't read enough or observe closely enough the structure of the papers they should be reading. I recently read one book I had come to a bit late into my MA thesis (still writing it), but the style and methodology was so strong that I basically couldn't help imitate it when going over my second Chapter. I ended up writing 2 new pages at the start just in a similar style to explain my methodology.
Dear Andy, it a great pleasure to listen to you about academic area. Thanks alot.
Thank you Dr. Stapleton for this video! Transforming my bachelor thesis into a paper now, and hope to publish it by this year :)
Your videos are always helpful. One request is it would also be helpful if you make a video of writing an actual (demo) paper and demonstrating the actual writing process (data collection or writing from already collected data/literature). Not completely writing the whole paper ofcourse a demo or couple of sentences or maybe a paragraph for each section would be enough to get the idea. thanks!
I am so grateful for this video Andy. I can adapt the thought process for writing client recommendations for data science projects.
Creating a template is a brilliant tip. I do it for everything. Writing a letter for work, create a template. Writing a report or a budget reconciliation, use a template. The effort put in on the first document really saves time for every subsequent document.
Thanks Andy it helped a lot
I am about to start writing my first paper
Best of luck!
Definitely! Create figures and tables first. Then write data followed by results. Write the introduction and conclusion and abstract last.
Andy your presentation is great.
Hi Andy, as a future PhD student, finishing up undergrad, I really enjoy your content. Would you be willing to make videos on the process of finding the ideal graduate school and applying to graduate programs? i.e. how to know a graduate school is for you? How to make your grad school application stand out? Thank you so much for you advice, keep up the good work!
Coming from someone who just finished their MRes and applying into a doctorate porgramme, spending time to research about the reputation of the Uni's postgraduate programmes, their staff in the department/faculty that you are interested in, alumni, etc. is really useful in finding your fit. Also, I would look for integrated programmes - they provide an easier way to 'top-up' into a doctorate programme, i.e. your dissertation or final project for your MRes/MPhil can become the basis of your PhD thesis. This is what I chose.
As for standing out, I found from my experience that great and consistent grades compounded with a great personality and proactive approach to academic work were paramount. The latter two, you can convey in your writing to the university or during a prelim interview.
Just started writing my first article.. this is interesting thank you
Very precious tips, thanks man! lot of love
A tip at least for math and physics: Your first journal submission should be a LaTeX file (of course) or a pdf file that was compiled from one. Though it should meet good formatting standards you do not need to adapt the article to fully fit the style of the journal at this stage---that comes later. Do yourself a favor and do not waste time on formatting your article to the style of a journal that may very well reject it.
Excellent content and very helpful 🙏
Very helpful. Thank you for all the advice.
Great advice! Submitted rebuttal for two papers last month. Fingers crossed!
I wish I saw this vide before Writing my first research paper. Thank you though. I am definitely apply this method to my next one.
This was super helpful. Thank you Andy! You have been and you continue to be my self appointed, cross continental , virtual PhD advisor:-)
Nice tutorial on how to write a research paper which is a must for PhD's
Thank you for this amazing video. 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Thanks for this. Gonna start my PhD in Biophysics this fall. These are helping me getting prepared.
Good luck! You'll do awesome if you are preparing well!
Thank you very much for the valuable informations 😊
Hello dear Doctor Andy Stapleton. Would you please make a video talking about the price of publishing a paper in a journal and about open access?
Thanks a lot, this was very useful!
I hope you don't mind me adding another consideration for papers - looking for a current debate in your field and entering into the fray :)
Thanks a lot sir your videos are really really very beneficial to me❤️
write the sections in increasing order of required thinking, methods, fig/table prep, results, intro, and discussion
Great tip!
I would actually leave fig/table prep and intro for last. the intro should be there to frame your results&discussion
@@pedroqueiros3314 that makes no sense. how can you write a coherent results section before you have prepared the results fig/tables. The results section is the objective description of your findings. The intro is simply the rationale for your study, which you should already have mostly written from the research proposal.
As i said, the order i suggested is based on preparing the sections in an increasing order of requiring thinking., which is very helpful for new/inexperienced writers.
@@toothdoc8206 Before the preparation of tables/figures you already understand the underlying results. Sure, you may have generated some figures and tables for your own analysis but these rarely directly go into your final manuscript; instead you then process, summarize, etc your results into a reader-friendly visual (thus fig/tab prep coming last as I mentioned).
Regarding the intro, sure if you are writing a research proposal you can do that, but often a PhD is inserted into a larger framework, where each student is responsible for a particular part of a project, reusing the same general research proposal used for the communal funding would not work.
@@pedroqueiros3314 I guess we will agree to have different styles that we teach to new writers
To publish a peer-reviewed article is not that hard - I could even published three peer-reviewed papers from my Masters. But when it comes to my PhD trying to squeeze out a paper at a top-notch journal such as in Science and Nature; it took more than courage and writing skills. And without these high qualities papers as assets getting an academic position is like crossing over an ocean with a straw raft.
how do you get data to do original research without conducting field experiments? Are there data sources one can tap into? Can you list some of them? I am in the field of business and policy. thnx
Thanks Andy! I'm starting my PhD this term and I'm just super nervous
Can you look into my friends paper "Manufacturing Bulk Nanocrystalline Al-3Mg Components Using Cryomilling and Spark Plasma Sintering"
He is trying to improve his writing to that required for journals like Elsevier but is unsure how.
what is your advice on the rate of publishing needed in a year? i noticed that some phd students are like on a race to submit as many papers as possible maybe to have a higher chance of getting papers accepted. But is this a good strategy? or is it better to plan well and ensure that the paper has some useful content instead of just trying to repeat the topic in different ways? thank you.
Nice videoAndy! I was just wondering how to tackle authorship order. I mean… you should leave it to your supervisor/corresponding author (if he/she is well oriented in what was going on with the research project ofc) or you should propose it and sent first draft with your authorship order idea. You know how delicate this topic is in the academia, I’m curious about your opinion.
Cheers
How about a working python simulation code that demonstrates time travel by integrating relativity, quantum mechanics and consciousness?
Can anyone help me publish in SSCI or SCIE indexed journals?
Thank you Andy
Any time
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
I'm missing literature review. Do you mean introduction plus lit. review ?
Andy has a video for everything 😭
Hi Andy, thank you so much for these amazing tips! ❤️ Do you have comments or thoughts around publishing your own Master's thesis? Many thanks in advance! :)
I'm not convinced a single sentence is enough to express the significance of many papers. A paragraph would be more reasonable. Of course, that's what an abstract is for!
Andy, does this advice equally relevant to a purely qualitative journal paper?
Thank you.
You're welcome, Laura!
Hello Dr Andy, What's advantage and disadvantage of young Prof.( Assistant Prof)? are the Assistant Profs fit for to supervisor u ur PhD?
I have edited medical research papers for 13 years, and with all due respect, I take issue. For example, your "cut and paste" advice. This could get you accused of plagiarising, even if it is your own paper. Rather, if the experimental procedure is the same as another published paper, then you should cite that paper if it is accessible, and state differences where they exist. In addition, papers are best kept to about 3,500-4,500 words, so don't inflate with repetitions from previous papers. Writing a readable straightforward research paper is an art. Like all else in life and academia, most research papers are mediocre or worse, both in language and science. I am stopping your video at 10:56, because I can't listen to any more of it.
Thanks Andy for the video, very useful and structured as always! Have you wrote science letters, or papers that are smaller than article in terms of the content? Do you have video about types of science reports types?
You from Portland?
I am originally from Plymouth in the UK now living in Australia.
I am so jelous of people whose supervisor help them writing.
Why?
They are less capable and less skilled then the ones who do their work.
@@arsalansaeed5418 so you’re not reinventing the wheel and wasting energy where you don’t need. Obviously there’s a balance and you need to become independent, but at the other end, you’re supposed to be learning in your PhD and if a supervisor gives you no advice they’re failing majorly at one of their core responsibilities (which is not uncommon)
@@arsalansaeed5418they really aren't, they learn the same things but take a long time doing do since they do it on their own, people with help just progress much much faster
I'd be a bit weary of following the example of existing research papers beyond the basic structure. In my experience, most scientists are not great writers.
I have a treatment to document. It can treat PTSD and possibly certain personality disorders.
Your comment or tip about copy and paste from your own research into the article should be cited or acknowledged - its robust and good academic habits to get into.
It would be helpful to show how to write a paper not just a overview.
Step 1: make up a lie that holds up the state approved narrative
Step 2: get all your likeminded friends to sign off on it
Step 3: keep telling yourself you're on the right side of history
😂
❤
Papers nowadays are games ... pay money and know more reviewers, you publish faster
Yes, there is certainly an element of that. Being able to recommend friendly reviewers to the editors of a journal can help.
My dept says never to pay to be published...
also i feel like there is very high competition and some are trying to get noticed by reviewers by submitting as many papers as possible
@@LeggattNZ I got the same advice from my community college direct report. He was wrong (if not misleading). It depends on your field. In my field (criminology), funding seems to be more common, and funding packages include APCs. I also found that most no-APC journals in criminology have zero impact factor.
First viwer 🇳🇵
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