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Organization of a Scientific Paper1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robert Glen
Robert Glen
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada
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Good organization of a scientific paper benefits both the writer and the reader. It enables the author to develop his subject systematically and logically, and to attain his objective with greater clarity, brevity, and emphasis. It provides the reader with a plan that he can follow and so keeps him attuned throughout to the writer's thought sequence. This contributes to comfortable reading and to better communication of information—worthy objectives in any type of writing. Lack of organization leads to confusion for both writer and reader.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , April 1951 , pp. 99 - 106
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1951

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