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And Don't Forget Those Outlining Skills You Learned in Fifth Grade

Sep 05, 2007

Writing a good journal article is a skill that can be learned and not an innate talent, writes blogger Janet Stemwedel. In her post, she draws from a Chemical and Engineering News article, picking out tips to help make your paper a good one: be clear about authorship and who did what; know your audience and target the paper toward an "intelligent graduate student, not a professor"; and conduct a thorough literature review -- and, of course, read all the papers that you cite. (Seriously.)

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