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Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

High Impact Science, Ideas and Scientific Writing

Professor Titular da Universidade de São Paulo, GNANO/USPSpecialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Sensors/Biosensors, Switzerland.Editor da Série: Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology, Springer-NaturePresidente da comissão do Portal da Escrita Científica da USP São Carlos.

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● High Impact Science

● Ideas & Creativity

● The Editorial Process

● Scientific Writing / Structure: Abstract

Outline

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Focus on High Impact Research!!

The Most Important Message

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Why to Publish??

Scientists Publish Ideas!!

What do scientists do?

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Publishing Ideas

Ideas

Research Implementation

Results

New Ideas?

Output

Research Project

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How to Get Good Ideas?

Know your fieldPeopleMain scientific journalsTake part in congresses and conferences

Know the recent advances Always search for recent, interesting papers Read them

Keep Moving!Study / Ask Questions / Think / Get Ideas / Test them

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Clarity and Concision

Audience

Citation/References No Room for Suspense

Characteristics of Scientific Writing

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The Manuscript is ready.

What happens now??

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A Typical Editorial Process

The Decision Tree

Author Editor IC / A. Editor

Accept

Reject

Referees

Accept

Reject

Minor Revision

MajorRevision

A. Editor Author

Accept

Reject

Recommend

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The Editor´s Point of View

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Cover LetterTitle

AuthorsAbstract

Figures Quality?...

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Abstract

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General

Specific

Adapted from: Hill et al., Teaching ESL students to read and writeexperimental papers, TESOL Quarterly, 16: 333, 1982

Organization of a paper

General

MethodologyResultsDiscussion

Introduction

Conclusions

Abstract

References

Title, Authors and Affiliations

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Contextualization

Gap

Purpose

Methodology

Results

Conclusions

Abstract

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A Suggested Sequence….

Results and Discussions

Conclusions

Introduction

Title

Experimental

Abstract

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Plagiarism

Interesting paper:

Dawn A. Bonnell et al., Recycling Is Not Always Good: TheDangers of Self-Plagiarism, ACS Nano, 6, 1–4, 2012

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Scientific Writing Course Outline

Module 1: Literary Genre, Ideas and High Impact ScienceModule 2: Structure 1: Abstract

Module 3: Structure 2: Introduction

Module 4: Structure 3: Results and Discussion, Conclusion

Module 5: Style, Language 1: Complexity Problems 1Module 6: Language 2: Complexity Problems 2, RhythmModule 7: Language 3: Plain English and Topic Sentences

Module 8: Manuscript Submission, The Editorial Process

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