State your facts as simply as possible, even boldly.
No one wants flowers of eloquence or literary ornaments in a research title.
>> All writing, ultimately, is a question of solving your problem.
It may be a question of finding the facts of presenting your paper.
It may be a question of attitude, style, or tone.
Whatever it is, it has to be clear, precise, and accurate.
For a scientist, to write in a compact way is an act of success or maybe, survival.
is excessive, all those things can get your reader confused or frustrated.
Most scientific journals require a limited amount of pages.
at the proposals which are longer than 15 pages.
then you will need to squeeze down into the required amount of pages.
There are certain strategies that you can apply when you start writing your paper.
puts it this way, prune the big limbs and shake out all the bad leaves.
He elaborates the precision comes from selection not from compression.
how you can make it condensed.
Prune and shake is excellent advice.
that's the prune the big limbs part.
what ideas or concepts you do not need to present in your paper.
For this, you need to build up a good story frame.
A broken frame is inefficient.
you always repeat things, which is not very good thing in scientific writing.
what words you can get rid of, what words you can do without.
Stephen King gives this advice, a second draft is first draft minus 10%.
what words you might delete from your paper.
These are some of the examples of the things that you should avoid in writing.
little meaning, words that do not add any ideas to your content.
Let's speak about the redundancies.
Sometimes, we use several words when one word can do all the work that needs doing.
apply a new synthetic approach to produce thermosetting plastics.
to produce and synthetic, they refer to making things.
I will develop a new approach to produce thermosetting plastics.
you should not present things that are obvious or well known.
to lecture people about things that everyone already knows.
That's a very good example of how you can avoid obvious things in your writing.
Modifiers, adjectives and adverbs, they are modifiers.
they are not your best friends.
adverbs, they modify adjectives and everything else.
A good noun or a good verb does not need to be modified.
you will make your writing more powerful, stronger, and tighter, more condensed.
How can you condense your writing?
That's another example of how you can avoid modifiers.
The entire reaction sequence takes less than one hour to complete.
The entire and to complete, they are identical.
you say, the reaction sequence takes less than one hour to complete.
which is absolutely the same as the first initial sentence that you wrote.
Very often we need to discuss the results, we need to discuss our findings.
we observed, we established or it has been established in our study.
Do we need these words?
they maintain the flow of your argumentation.
But if you look at this example, in our study we measured three samples.
Do we really need this word in our study?
It is obvious that you measured three samples in your study.
we observed this, this, and that.
always prefer the shorter word.
is right for your content, or whether it is too pretentious, and thus, unnecessary.
If you can write to start instead of initiate, always do this.
why not choose such a short and clear word as near?
unnecessary, obvious, and redundant words.
But how can you avoid redundant words?
By learning how to ask yourself a very simple question, as opposed to what?
you should ask yourself a question, as opposed to what?
Or the president's personal doctor?
Again, you should ask yourself a very simple question, as opposed to what?
unnecessary, or you just need to get rid of it, cut it.
And then your writing would definitely be more powerful, stronger and condensed.