This webinar titled “10 Tips for Writing a Truly Terrible Journal Article” was given by Bert Blocken in January 2017. The webinar was very informative tips targeting the young researchers not to make those types of mistakes in their own career. The webinar, first, was stating some obvious facts that researchers should consider to build bright early career. For example, why to publish research? Several reasons were stated such as communication, if you don’t publish you do not do any research, and support your institute and organization. In contrast, the presenter also stated very clear definition for the scientific misconduct. To all be aware of intentionally mentioned fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. The main topic of this webinar …show more content…
Also by claiming your work is the best over others’ work it considers as undermining the real experts in the field. Not citing the key publications in your research and directly related publish work is somewhat undermining those researchers and field. That would lead us to the following tip which is overestimate your contribution. In a way that this is not true, but if you prove it you have the right to claim it. It is not always your work is the best and other’s is the worst. Therefore, the sixth tip focus on the ambiguity and inconsistency. One should be careful not playing with words like writing a novel or journal entry. The word choice should be transfer the concept in consistent way. Consistency should be insured over the entire manuscript and for any type of academic work that’s why we do have guidelines for the thesis and dissertations. Tip number seven stating that the one should reference every statement s/he claims. Otherwise, you got the burden to prove …show more content…
If you feel that you are optimistic about the results because they match others’ results you should discuss this with fairness not conveying feelings about it. The last two tips deal with the fact that you do not care about the grammar, spelling, and the presentation of your figures and tables. Also, not caring about the reviewers and editor comments might results in a rejection to your paper. Thus, anyone should be careful about what s/he is going to submit review and revising if necessary. The editor’s and reviewers’ comments are very valuable because those people almost doing this favor for you free. They are the first to read your article and their comments should not be ignored. Other tips were mentioned in webinar are listed
5. A list of suspicious credentials at the Institute for Creation Research, along with other examples of blatant dishonesty, can be found at http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/origins/faqs-creationists.html
In the essay “Getting Started” by Anne Lamott. The author reaches out to her students and other fellow writers who struggle to overcome the infamous writer’s block. Thought out her paper she gives us hints and tips to train and prep us for our future papers. Her tips range from training you mind to prepare for a long and often strenuous essay, learning to take information in slowly to not overwork your brain and the last one always tell the truth in your essay. She threads through her essay that writing may be hard and seems like there is no silver lining but it’s not impossible to do. When done reading this essay I widely agree with Lamott’s writing ideas and tips they can be helpful for many struggling students. As one myself I found
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point or just makes sense. Probably the biggest thing I took away from this paper, is to not do the
After reading the article “The Man Who Saves You From Yourself” by Nathaniel Rich, I found that what he wrote about New Religious Movements was completely wrong and was not what these New Religious Movements were about. New Religious Movements are mostly about love and they want to build a community with peace and love and try to make a society that can help promote the idea of peace. He even starts out stating that these are all cults. The first thing he writes in his article is that “No one joins a cult.” (Rich, 35) This is true but not true because no one would join something called a cult because of the negative connotation that it brings. They’re really nothing called a cult; they are a new religious movement. They mostly want people to believe what they preach which is not cult-like at all. The term cult comes from people who want to hurt all the religion that is recent that isn’t like the traditional Judeo-Christian religions. He helps enforces this stereotype about New Religion Movements. Nathaniel Rich makes them look like they are all horrible groups that can trap people and try to scam them and make up a lot of horrible things to make them look like what the New Religious Members beliefs are wrong. He makes them look like all they will do is hurt the recruit and their families by taking them away. He only talks about a few New Religious Movements that has done horrible things and says that all of these types of movement will all do this. Rich gives a lot of example of what he thinks is true but they have been actual proven facts that can prove what he says wrong and why he is wrong.
Overall, John M. Barry was able to define and characterize scientific research. Using rhetorical strategies such as, comparison, specific diction, and contrast Barry is able to show how scientific research is uncertainty
To fully understand the information given to complete Week Five assignment, I have to have my strategies in order. By following that maneuver, it will give me a sense of accomplishment. Precision: Since I like to have very detailed information, I also take detailed notes in order for me to acquire the right information. I don’t need to FIT that pattern. I will check over my work and ask the right questions to make sure I know the answers to complete my paper.
Science is supposed, to tell the truth, but because humans are the ones performing the experiments sometimes there are flaws. For instance, Andre Wakefield in
Both in fiction and in real life a certain breed of scientists has decided to ignore the scientific method and chase dreams of fame. With that fame, they hope to dig deep into our pockets and reap the benefits of their poor workmanship. It is most evident from the examples given that these scientists, who have seemingly reversed scientific evolution, no longer care for true science and the scientific method, but rather are interested in personal glory.
make a very general argument of his point to convince the reader of its validity.
The following essay will discuss falsification, as discussed by Karl Popper, as well has his account of the scientific method. The idea whether any scientific theory can truly be falsified will also be approached by looking at the problems presented by Popper’s theory of falsification, and the impact this has on the scientific method and science as a whole.
“Fang Zhouzi” is one of the most famous Chinese scientific writers who is also well known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. He is keen to find other Chinese scholar’s plagiarism cases and make the result known to the public. Chinese people always said “Tall trees catch much wind”, which means a person of high position is liable to be attacked. As he became more and more famous, some of his articles are even found to be plagiarism. Most of them are considered to be translation plagiarism.
This is where the writer provides ideas and arguments with corresponding analysis, interpretation and evaluation. It also requires proficiency in grammar usage which means a writer should be mindful of the rules and conventions in writing to avoid erroneous sentence structure. Consistency is one of the skills needed in academic writing by making essays free from personal feelings and biases. A clear sense of argument is very important in academic writing because in writing the thoughts of writer would be vividly expressed. One has to give ideas and perception on a certain thing in the surroundings such as real object, picture, text, artifacts, phenomena and
Beginning with the scientific revolution in the fifteen hundreds, the Western world has become accustomed to accepting knowledge that is backed by the scientific method, a method that has been standardized worldwide for the most accurate results. This method allows people to believe that the results achieved from an experiment conducted using the scientific method have been properly and rigorously tested and must therefore be the closest to truth. This method also allows for replication of any experiment with the same results, which further solidifies the credibility and standing of natural science in the world. Another aspect that allows for the reliability on the natural sciences is the current paradigm boxes, which skew the truth to remove anomalies. This affects the outcome of experiments as the hypotheses will be molded to create results that fit the paradigm box.
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