Questions tagged [writing-style]
Questions about the tones, turns of phrase and other writing patterns that are appropriate for writing in an academic context.
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What to do with a wide text in appendix of a paper [closed]
I am writing a paper and want to include my Mathematica commands in an appendix. By exporting my commands as a .tex file and including it in my paper’s tex file, I end at a text too wide to be fitted ...
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Use of "would have + past participle" in a scientific article
I want to ask if the use of "would have + verb in past participle" is appropriate in a paper. What is the correct way of expressing a hypothetical outcome when describing past events? I may ...
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in-text citation: multiple section of a book
I am using APA 7th and IEEE.
In in-text citation, how to refer to multiple section of a book.
I mean, i want to say in chapter C1, section S1 and chapter C2, section S2 the author talked about X.
Here ...
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Cite a specific section of my own paper
I am using APA 7th. I want to cite a specific section of my own paper.
How to say look into section X for more details.
Please show both parenthetical and narrative.
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When paraphrasing over several paragraphs, how to cite an ebook with chapter and section?
Here is a sample dummy text:
Davis and Jones (2020) explore different leadership styles and their
effects on employee motivation in their ebook. They highlight
transformational leadership as ...
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Why are method sections usually impersonal, when the main text isn’t?
There are generally two possible ways to present experiments and analyses in academic writing, which I label as follows for the purpose of this question:
Personal, also referred to as active or first ...
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I am citing from a paper which confused the word "affective" and "affectionate", what should I do?
I understand that with minor spelling mistakes you use [sic] or just [brackets]. However, in this case, I think the author accidentally wrote the wrong word.
It looks odd to write affect[ionat]e and ...
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What should I do when a coauthor suggests I fluff up a manuscript?
I have worked on a project almost entirely on my own with some input from my main advisor.
Now I've drafted a manuscript, and I have received comments from my secondary advisor, who is also a coauthor,...
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List of words to present equations in an article
I have 13 equations (LaTeX: \eqref) (constraints more precisely) to present in an article's paragraph and, as a non-native, I would welcome any other suggestions to present these constraints in order ...
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Double parenthesis in academic writing [duplicate]
I have the following question. I have a text in which I want to insert a small mathematical formulation, namely between parenthesis. Unfortunately, this mathematical formulation also contains a ...
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Should the information within a caption be repeated into the main text?
My understanding is that a caption should be here to help someone read a caption independently from the text (without reading the paper/book/etc for example).
This question answers whether a long ...
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Institution wide style guides for theses - rationale and context
Under this answer here on Academia StackExchange, Xander Henderson and I observed that there seems to be a large difference between the United States and, for instance, Germany regarding how specific ...
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Publishing no-longer state-of-the-art results in machine learning
I co-authored a method, which yielded state-of-the-art results in several machine learning benchmarks.
However, the paper got rejected from two conferences and then from a super slow journal.
With the ...
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My footnotes are too long and too many due to my anxiety. How to shorten/reduce them?
I am a historian and I have noticed over the last few years that my footnotes have become too long. It goes so far that for a recent article manuscript the word count of my footnotes is only slightly ...
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In mathematical essays, is "at x=a", "for x=a", "when x=a", "if x=a", or even "with x=a", a better choice? [closed]
Which one of the following sentences sounds better to a native ear?
At $x=a$, $f(x,t)$ is an even function of $t$.
For $x=a$, $f(x,t)$ is an even function of $t$.
When $x=a$, $f(x,t)$ is an even ...
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