Planning and writing your technical report
The two books below provide excellent introductions to academic writing, make sure you read the first one.
- How to get research published in journals by Abby Day, Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Gower, 1996 ISBN 0566078864 or 0566077671 (paperback)
After selecting a target journal, a starting point is to select three or four of the closest articles that your article must stand up to.
Writing templates
The writing_template.txt is something I put together based on a selection of reviewer comments I compiled recently for a few articles, from past experiences. The first part is the section of the article I was writing and below selected comments by reviewers, note that I neither necessarily agree with the comments nor accept that they are true but certainly do take them into account when editing the work for re-submission. At the end is an article plan that I put together to help me with sectioning in a recent journal publication.
Latex resources
Latex is a very popular for techical writing tasks, easing the creation of complex mathematical and logical equations and allowing for better control, formatting and appearance important in publication.
A Latex tutorial is available that you may fin d helpful, available under the project resources (see subdirectory):
- http://www.miktex.org
Miktex Latex package.
Binaries available for variety of platforms including most Windows versions
- http://http://www.latex-project.org/
Latex home page, documentation on how to use Latex available including information on how to get it