Research Paper Writing

Main Objective

1. To produce your research preprint structure for gathering interested reviewers
2. To determine your target audience
3. To notify your research communities that you're researching a particular topic
4. To provide a "framework" for your research
5. To make sure you're on track with your research

Descriptions

At this step, you should be able to gather all the necessary parameters for your research using the research paper structure. Things like:

• title of the research
• who is involved
• why the reader wants to read your paper:
  • what is the research objectives
  • what is the main problem
  • consequences of the problem (or without solving it)
  • reasons to solve the problems
• your proposed approach to solution
• what are the early resources (e.g. materials overviews / reviews) needed to achieve your solution
• what is your proposal for your paper
• structuring your paper based on current knowledge

Additionally, depending on your audience, you also need to select the following:

• communication languages (e.g. English for science and technologies, mother tongue for art related)
• style and tone of writing (e.g. brief, crisp, clear, and data supported for science reader)
• paper format (in the case you have a restricted publisher to conform)
• publisher
• publishing licenses

This way, you can start structuring your research paper into a skeletal format. This skeletal format serves as a "map" or "framework" when you explore your research.

Main Objective

1. To produce the research paper's contents.
2. To implement your research.

Description

This is the stage where you work on your research. There are generally 2 ways to do it:

1. research first, report at last
2. research and report simultaneously

If you do number 1 where most of us in undergraduate did, good luck with the writing and reviews. It will be stressful, forgetful, and easily plagiarize other peoples' work. Therefore, I highly recommend you do research and report stage by stage gracefully, shown in #2.

If you are lucky to have reviewers who are doing "supervising reviews" process with you, you need to work with them each time you progress your research and report write-up. They are some great reviewers who are willing to spend a lot of time and resources with you so remember to work with them closely and treat them later!

If you have reviewers who are doing "staged reviews" or "scheduled reviews" process, you need to plan out the reviewing sessions with them once you hit the milestone (e.g. arrived at stage / hit timeline).

At this point, focus on writing and achieving your research goal from your writer perspectives. The most important job here is to make sure the contents achieve the research objectives you planned. The keywords here are: facts and data. If your reviewers brings up some reader feedback, let them know you will deal with later after you achieve the final output: producing the masterpiece.

Main Objective

1. To refactor the writing for your reader
2. To organize and simplify the paper for reader sake

Description

Now that you have all the facts and data in place, it is time to write a reader-focused paper. This is where you simplify the masterpiece from your reader's perspectives. At first, you can make a copy of your masterpiece and work on it.

The goal here is to modify the masterpiece as if you're publishing it. Therefore, you need to revisit the research write-up structure from scratch. Here are some guidelines:

1. conclude your reader (e.g. who are your reader, the lowest level of expertise needed to read your paper, tones, etc.)
2. paper format (e.g. check for publication's format requirements)
3. plan the presentation style based on the masterpiece facts and data (e.g. organize them in a way to remove repetition writing, relational presentation, fact positioning)
   1. Do not do any repetition
   2. Use simple language and phrases
   3. Use active/passive voices appropriately to keep the readers reading mood in place
   4. Minimize heading cross-references with careful positioning
   5. Watch word-count and paging
4. Filter low priority data/facts out by splitting them into new article papers or separate material.

This is the time where you handle your reviewers' feedback related to report formatting. Same as previous, you should work closely with your reviewers on report writing.