One of my major priorities for the group this summer is increasing our paper writing abilities. Journal papers continue to be the primary communication medium of science because they convey the essential story of a research project in a form that can be shared and archived relatively uniformly across many scientific disciplines. Writing journal papers is a very large endeavor that can be very scary and intimidating at the start.
The suggestions in this post are based on the book 27 Essential Principles of Story (https://story27.com/principles/).
What is your story?
Journal papers have an underlying narrative structure built into their standard format, and the strength of the narrative can be amplified through storytelling techniques.
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