Saturday, November 27, 2010

How to write a paper (Part 2)

continued from previous..
Introduction must be consise and not to long (average 3-4 paragraph, but sometimes it depends on the length of the manuscript); For better understanding, below are some criteria that can be considered in introduction:
Paragraph 1: State the current issues related with your work (e.g. News-cover or current agenda). Tell a brief story about your raw material used or previous studies.
Paragraph 2: Explain why your raw material are used in the studies (e.g. the mechanism or physical/chemical properties, the accepted range, special features).
Paragraph 3: Suggest the reasonable mixture to obtained a maximum value of efficiency (if any) and give reference from previous studies.
Paragraph 4: State the objectives, analysis or characterization method, parameters (conc, pH, temp, pressure, dope percent etc).
EXPERIMENTAL
In this chapter, the author should list down all the methodology, equipment setting, range, related equations (if theres an equations, please make sure that you give an explanation about the abbrevations or symbols) in past-active tense. Usually, in experimental, the author shouldn't tell any observation happen eventhough it is important. Consider that you didn't expect what will happen (e.g. The solution were shaken using orbital shaker (IKEA, Sweeden) at 300 rpm for 1 hour until the colour changes to brown...wrong).
Try to avoid by adding reference or citation in this chapter. But, you may add them due to some reasons, for example, the process that you're working with is a repeatable/comparison method with slight modifications (e.g. Extraction of ABC plant was done using the extraction method suggested by John et. al [1] with a slight modifications..). The suppliers name and origin of the country must also be write (e.g. ...an exact amount of 1 g potassium perchlorate (Merck)....the FTIR analysis (Perkin Elmer 200, UK) was performed in order to..). The best practise in wrinting this chapter is to divide each analysis in a sub-chapters. This will make the author's job easy while describing the phenomenon in the next chapter (Results and discussion).
to be continued..

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Science Direct search: Hazwan Hussin


I'm so proud with it..even thousand times i look through it, and i never say bored viewing it..
p/s: happy e-day to me (20/11/2010)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

It's the fifth but it's first...

Alhamdulilah..usaha selama beberapa bulan membuahkan hasil..reseacrh paper yg dah accepted ari tu dah available kt Science Direct..kalau nak tgk, sila click di sini..Sesiapa yg brminat n related dgn reseacrh yg ak buat, bley la download...Salam Aidil Adha semua!!!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

How to write a paper (Part 1)

Based on my true experience, i would like to share with all of you on how to write a research paper..huhu..i'm not saying that i'm good at it, but i think it would be good to share with..

What you need before submitting a manuscript??

1) Cover letter
2) Manuscript
3)Figures
4) Tables

we will go through each subtopics in detail; First, lets start with a manuscript..

How to write a good research manuscript??

1) Lots of journals/papers/books related with your research (for citation)
2) Orders must be accordingly (Abstract, Intro, Experimental, Result and discussion, conclusion)
3) Language/the flow

In order to write a good manuscript, first things that must come across is that your work contains a lot of well-arrange data and new study have been done just to make your work more interesting (easier to be accepted). Sometime i know that we have a lot of thing to tell but how to explain it on a piece of paper??

You can start by using a proceeding papers (papers that was sent in any conference) and modify it or else you can start with a fresh one. Beware..Don't start with an abstract!! You must point out what are the subtopics that you have and correlate them to write intro and experimental.

INTRODUCTION

An intro must be short and tells briefly about your raw material, historical part, previous related study and objectives of your work..

to be continued....

p/s: all copyrights..kalau nk copy, kne mintak izin dulu..haha

Monday, November 1, 2010

My Pride!!


At last..alhamdulilah..but still not available online..wait patiently yaa..