Scientific Writing

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• This 1 hour lecture by Kristin Sainani as part of my Sports Biomechanics Lecture Series provides many useful tips and examples for scientific writing:

• I have also heard very positive reviews of Kristin’s free Writing in the Sciences course.

• For a great guide to ‘creating logical flow when writing scientific articles’, check out this handy article which provides tips and examples for every section of a paper at a macro and micro level.

• This article provides ‘some personal advice concerning how to write precise, concise and eloquent research articles’, whereas this paper discusses ten ‘simple rules for concise scientific writing’:

• Similarly, this paper provides and discusses ’ten simple rules for writing a literature review’.

• For a more detailed breakdown of writing considerations and sentence structure, I recommend this article on ‘The Science of Scientific Writing’.

• Finally, Grammarly offer extensions / add-ins for Word, Outlook, etc. which can help with writing style. Just make sure you consider the suggestions carefully and don’t simply accept all suggestions.

General Writing:

• For regular tips and examples of general writing, I recommend following Julian Shapiro and David Perell on Twitter.

• The tweet below contains some examples of Julian Shapiro’s resources, including a 5-page writing handbook aimed at online writing but still useful for other formats: