Description

Forget the struggles of writing a research paper - there is no need for headaches, self-doubt, and endless revisions. If you are a young and ambitious scientist, this concise book offers you a blueprint for confident academic writing, even if you do not possess the writing gene. You will learn:

✓ How to become a prolific writer using four research paper writing steps called "LEAP"

✓ How to make sense of research results and frame a core message that convinces your readers

✓ How to respond to vicious reviewers and get your paper accepted at the best journals

✓ Eight unwritten academic publishing rules you should follow to garner numerous citations and succeed in your academic career

Instead of fearing the writing process, this crisp book will show you how to leverage it as a means of understanding your research results.

What's included:

1) Free online tools, templates, and internet resources for academic writing, grammar editing, collaborative writing, journal selection, and more
2) Two printable cheat sheets that summarize the advice from this book
3) A book full of actionable advice for becoming efficient at writing research papers

About the author

My name is Martins Zaumanis and I studied at a second-rate university in a country that barely anyone has heard of. That did not stop me from earning a Ph.D. in the USA, and now I work as a scientist at a prestigious research institute in Switzerland. In this book, I will share the academic publishing approaches that made this journey possible

Writing was far from my favorite subject in high school so you can trust me when I say that you don't have to have talent to write a research paper. What you need is a trustworthy system and that is exactly what I offer in this book. It's called the "LEAP" academic writing approach and I designed it to first allow the author to understand the research results himself/herself and then explain them to others in a research paper.

When writing the second part of the book, I was thinking of time-traveling to an earlier version of myself. Back when I started my research career, knowing the principles on which academic publishing is built would have made my life much easier. Since time-travel is not (yet) a thing, I did the second-best thing and wrote down the advice so that your journey to professorship would be smoother than mine.