How to write consistently boring scientific literature


	How to write consistently boring scientific literature

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7-3-2007 10:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/02d1148b-8ef2-4d02-873d-2de6917f896b/19259023-172B-4333-A27B-2303C7766192/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/04/19/how-to-write-consistently-boring-scientific-literature/" href="http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/04/19/how-to-write-consistently-boring-scientific-literature/" style="font-size: 11px;">rs.resalliance.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/04/19/how-to-write-consistently-boring-scientific-literature/"><P>Because science ought to be fun and attractive, particularly when many months of hard work with grant applications, data collections and calculations are over and everything is ready for publishing the wonderful results, it is most unfortunate that the final reading and writing phases are so tiresome.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/04/19/how-to-write-consistently-boring-scientific-literature/"><P>I have therefore tried to identify what characteristics make so much of our scientific writing unbearably boring, and I have come up with a top-10 list of recommendations for  writing consistently boring publications.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/04/19/how-to-write-consistently-boring-scientific-literature/"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Avoid focus</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Avoid originality and personality</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Write long contributions</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Remove implications and speculations</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Leave out illustrations</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Omit necessary steps of reasoning</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Use many abbreviations and terms</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Suppress humor and flowery language</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Degrade biology to statistics</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">  Quote numerous papers for trivial statements</LI>
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