How to write a peer reviewed research paper | Full road map...

In this video I talk about all of the steps write a peer-reviewed research paper. Whether it is your first time or you have written a few peer-reviewed papers there will be some top tips in here to accelerate your writing.

0:00 – how do you know you are ready to write?
2:16 – your single sentence summary
4:18 – figures and tables
6:01 – outline and headers
10:07 – writing order
19:48 – get eyes on it as soon as possible
21:31 – when it is ready to publish
22:48 – summary

[katomoon]

Cannot thank you enough Dr. Andy, many professors cannot teach this stuff for an entire semester. But it's impressive how you can manage to put all this vital information in just 20 minutes in a precise and easy to understand fashion. You are truly a gifted instructor and communicator.

Many thanks indeed from Uganda - East Africa

[reijiriho]

gotta save this vid for future reference ~

[shawnb]

Great video. My paper was accepted in a journal on Monday after a major revision. Just awaiting the email for the article proof before publication. Advice that I can give to anyone writing for a journal: when reviewers ask for revisions, do them fully, quickly, and politely. Be patient and be prepared to wait.

[wadihrassy]

I can't get over the fact that these videos are just incredibly helpful.
Motivating to go on with academia while giving helpful advice to do so!
Thank you!

[DrJoySmithMaxwell]

Capitalizing on a good title, using an outlining/skeleton approach based on an industry template, & leveraging visual aids (graphs & tables) for flow is good advice & thinking of research writing as telling of a science STORY is brilliant for effective communication!

[JackSparrow-ytqw]

Your videos are always helpful. One request is it would also be helpful if you make a video of writing an actual (demo) paper and demonstrating the actual writing process (data collection or writing from already collected data/literature). Not completely writing the whole paper ofcourse a demo or couple of sentences or maybe a paragraph for each section would be enough to get the idea. thanks!

[rezarezaei]

Can't not think how to thank you Dr. Andy. It's been a long time that i was looking for someone to explain things u just said. From the bottom of my heart thank you ❤

[Mr.Edd]

Although I am not (yet) a PhD student, what I have seen in some people's BA or MA essays is that they clearly have just not read enough essays or books in the field of what they are writing. You kind of are what you read. In my field (English), having your own voice in your narrative is quite important as it's not just listing data, but there are conventions of writing such essays and certain structures and methodologies, which after a while will sort of go into your system. And people just clearly don't read enough or observe closely enough the structure of the papers they should be reading. I recently read one book I had come to a bit late into my MA thesis (still writing it), but the style and methodology was so strong that I basically couldn't help imitate it when going over my second Chapter. I ended up writing 2 new pages at the start just in a similar style to explain my methodology.

[trolli]

Best content that should be used in every university!!

[angelabrient]

Creating a template is a brilliant tip. I do it for everything. Writing a letter for work, create a template. Writing a report or a budget reconciliation, use a template. The effort put in on the first document really saves time for every subsequent document.

[mdasifrezwanshishir]

Thank you Dr. Stapleton for this video! Transforming my bachelor thesis into a paper now, and hope to publish it by this year :)

[sirmclovin]

A tip at least for math and physics: Your first journal submission should be a LaTeX file (of course) or a pdf file that was compiled from one. Though it should meet good formatting standards you do not need to adapt the article to fully fit the style of the journal at this stage---that comes later. Do yourself a favor and do not waste time on formatting your article to the style of a journal that may very well reject it.

[nehasingh]

Thanks Andy it helped a lot
I am about to start writing my first paper

[otownasaurus]

Hi Andy, as a future PhD student, finishing up undergrad, I really enjoy your content. Would you be willing to make videos on the process of finding the ideal graduate school and applying to graduate programs? i.e. how to know a graduate school is for you? How to make your grad school application stand out? Thank you so much for you advice, keep up the good work!

[itube]

Dear Andy, it a great pleasure to listen to you about academic area. Thanks alot.

[LinusWilson]

Definitely! Create figures and tables first. Then write data followed by results. Write the introduction and conclusion and abstract last.

[derranstokes]

I am so grateful for this video Andy. I can adapt the thought process for writing client recommendations for data science projects.

[toothdoc]

write the sections in increasing order of required thinking, methods, fig/table prep, results, intro, and discussion

[herissamalaoui]

Just started writing my first article.. this is interesting thank you

[hazelsimila]

This was super helpful. Thank you Andy! You have been and you continue to be my self appointed, cross continental, virtual PhD advisor:-)