By Eric Mosby

This is not a list that is being provided to you to make your life difficult. However, if you go through the comments here your reports would have a better chance of being mistaken as being professionally written research papers, and that is what every one of you would want.

Quotes

When you write a paper related to literature, current events, history, and many other fields, direct quotes may be important to be mentioned for a full discussion on any subject. In science, very rarely there is any call for a direct quote. On papers of students, direct quotes are not at all required to be included, except for the case where a student fails to understand the concept and might use the quote to have a better understanding. However, this doesn’t go over that well with the grader. As per the principle, by no means use a direct excerpt in a scholarly technical research paper. It’s your own thoughts that should be expressed, not those of someone else’s.

Verb tense

It is always a bad idea to not check your work before sending it in. Using wrong verb tense is always bothering to read and it speculates poor writing skills of the student. At worst, the reader might get confused as to what facts were already known to him and what facts were newly discovered in the actual study that you have done. The tenses are the most important tool that examines what you had already engendered discerning from what you actually found out while doing the study. You should always use past tense to describe events that have already happened. Such as the events that include processes, that you have carried on and the consequences that you observed. Use present tenses to depict the generally consented facts.

The acknowledgments to the outcomes of a specific study should also be written in past tense.

See in your mind’s eye the complexity a non-native speaker would face who learns to speak appropriate English and then reads local rags or tries to make the sense out of the reports by ‘talking heads’ on the new shows.

Proofread!

Incomplete sentences, noticeable spelling mistakes, disused phrases, and any other indications of a hurriedly written paper can cost you big time. Please take time in writing your paper and begin to work on it at an early stage so that you do have time to proofread it in the end. Never forget to check the spellings of scientific names, the names of individuals, names of compounds, etc. Grammatical errors and any typo errors can be mortifying at any stage of writing. Though, as many different terminologies have similar names, a spelling mistake can invariably result in a completely incorrect statement that might not even make sense to the reader.

Before you print your paper, make sure you don’t split up the table’s more than one page, the headings are not ‘orphaned’, you do not submit the pages out of sequence, etc. Always remember, someone will have to read this thing! If the reader is a reviewer or an editor, you might just get away a rejection notice because you were too sloppy at some instances if not throughout.

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