- Write your paper in 20 days — starting August 3rd.
(*cough cough* ahem… bullshit.)
I learned this the hard way when I started writing my first research paper.
– How broad is too broad?
– Won't everyone reading my paper already know the "broad" stuff?
– Won’t readers be annoyed if I tell them things they already know?
– How do I know if my logic makes sense to others?
– What is the best ordering for my particular research?
– But wtf is a compelling abstract?
– How do I know what is compelling to others about my research?
– How do I write in a compelling way?
– What makes writing dense and difficult?
– How much detail do I actually need?
– Won’t “dumbing down” my writing stop editors and reviewers from taking me seriously as an expert?
– Um, HOW do I make writing into a funnel?
– What do I funnel from and to?
– (They better mean a funnel cake...)
None of the writing advice helped me.
Instead, I spent 6 months stressing out and feeling like an imposter because I couldn’t do a basic task every academic needs to do…
I hit my rock bottom when I heard my PI arriving one morning and knew that if he saw me, he was going to ask how writing was going.
(Spoiler – it wasn’t.)
So, I panicked and did the mature thing – I hid.
And as held my breath in that dark closet while he walked past, I swore I would never feel like this again.
But deep down, I knew…
Good communication isn’t a genetic trait.
It’s a skill that can be learned.
So, I panic-wrote a disorganized and nonsensical draft…
that my professor immediately rewrote *sigh*
And then I began my mission to figure out exactly HOW to write a great research paper, because I wanted a step-by-step formula – not vague guidelines.
I took every course I could find.
Read every resource I could get my hands on.
Read actual thousands of high-impact papers across research fields and journals
Until I figured it out – the exact formula for a high-impact research paper.
I make it easy to write great research papers and grant proposals so you can get back to what really matters – your research.
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And they are doing it
And now I’m putting these formulas into the hands of researchers who need them the most.