How to write consistently boring scientific literature - CORE.
When I teach for the Science Communication Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I focus on helping students improve their scientific voice. I use workshop-style instruction, review of student writing, tutorial staff, and free online tutorials that I have developed.
Scientists who advocate a paradigm shift in scientific writing suggest that we should increase our efforts to write with our readers in mind (3,12., 13., 14.). This means writing to make the reader’s understanding of a scientific text as effortless as possible by using a style that is simple, accurate, concise, and devoid of jargon (12,13).
I present here, a top-10 list of recommendations for how to write consistently boring scientific publications. I then discuss why we should and how we could make these contributions more.
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However, the scientific process and the norms that guide it contribute to an intentionally prosaic, impersonal, and precise way of writing about scientific discoveries (Sand-Jensen 2007), which are typically packaged in a scientific paper and subjected to the peer-review process.
Scientific Writing - Make it interesting Be clear but not boring Know when there is too little or too much From: Sand-Jensen (2007): How to write consistently boring scientific literatur, Oikos 116:723-727.