Writing

• Nature Guidelines on writing an abstract
• 10-Rules for writing productivity
• Structuring Papers

How to structure your introduction

• Begin with a historical background: where do the main ideas in the paper come from?
• Introduce the unsolved problem and clearly explain why it is a problem.
• To solve this problem, we have some clever new ideas, and here they are!
• Summarize the results, ending with a sentence or two that encapsulate their importance (and your excitement!).

Guides to Scientific Writing by Thomas M. Annesley:

• Title
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion