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What is the scientific paper? 1: Observations

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Cameron Neylon

http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen

I'd add one more step to the how the paper is made at the beginning. Funders fund some science, often with implicit or explicit demands on the scientists to publish in some set of forms (which might or might not include papers)

Posted at 2009-08-25 08:46:10 - [Ban] - [Del]

Jim

http://www.mentalindigestion.net

Good summary, I would agree with this; ironically, at the same time you posted this, I was writing a blog on the process of writing a scientific paper.

I like your lablit by the way; I followed you here from the Gower Street Cuckoos in Nature. I was at Science Online too, though didn't bump into you on the Friday or Saturday, but then there were many I didn't.

Can't wait for the next meeting of minds however ;-)

Posted at 2009-08-29 03:01:16 - [Ban] - [Del]

Joe D

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Thanks! I must get around to writing the next part somewhen this weekend.

Posted at 2009-08-29 10:46:29 - [Del]

Hannah

Hi Joe, just read your short story in Naure and enjoyed the second installment! One other point about research papers I find interesting, from a linguistic perspective, is they are predominantly written in English, more specifically American or British Standard English. David Crystal (as always) also has some interesting things to say about scientific discourse in an article at: http://www.davidcrystal.com/DC_articles/English2.pdf

Posted at 2009-09-14 17:01:57 - [Ban] - [Del]

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