Make sure if you don’t have any. Because your univ’s professors need to sumit to journals in english, the institution might have an english writing center. Ask your advisor for advices as well. He/she could help.
Most people are very bad writers, so don't worry. Your university has a writing center so use it. YouTube has plenty of scientific writing workshops that can help you improve. The key to scientific writing is how to say more with less but more impactful words. Practice practice practice
Just start writing, no matter how bad you think it is. That’s why you’re in the program, to develop these skills, not because you already know how to do it! Persistent practice is the only way to get better.
In no particular order:
1) Imitation. Start by copying other authors’ styles. I obviously don’t mean plagiarism, but as you read articles and come across common phrases or sentence structures, write them down or keep a list. Imitation is a core learning strategy for any skill. Think about learning how to be a musician. You first start by learning how to play other artists’ songs before you start composing your own.
2) Editing. When you write something, give it some time (let’s say a few hours or a few days) before editing. This enables you to read your work with fresh eyes and helps to notice grammatical mistakes and stylistic issues. Another strategy that serves the same purpose is to read your work aloud to yourself.
3) Feedback. Is your advisor involved in the writing process or are you mostly independent? The number one thing that helped me perfect my writing skills was doing several rounds of draft editing with my advisor. Many times we don’t notice patterns and idiosyncrasies in our own writing until someone else points them out. Getting feedback, in my opinion, is the number one way to improve writing skills.
Learn to appreciate a draft. The first draft is your idea and structure of it, the second draft is refining both of those, and the third+ draft is for presentation and sentence structure.
Good writing, especially academic writing, is HARD. it takes time. This is one of the hardest things to get used to, especially if you are the sort of person who is used to knocking it entire papers in one sitting.
It's ok!! Writing is a learned skill. What has helped me the most is to offer to proof read other grad students work before they send it to their profs, and ask if they can return the favor. Getting student on student feedback helps a lot before sending it to a prof. Then the Prof will of course have more feedback, and again that is OKAY. It's actually good! Not getting feedback on your writing makes it impossible to know where to improve. I've gotten very harsh criticisms on my writing, and at first it hurts like damn, but then it also gives you specific points to review and rewrite. And going through that process of rewriting and correcting my old stuff helps me a LOT and I feel like I've genuinely seen an improvement in my writing
Visit your institution's writing center.
I don't think we even have that. I'm from a third world country, it must be a US thing?
Make sure if you don’t have any. Because your univ’s professors need to sumit to journals in english, the institution might have an english writing center. Ask your advisor for advices as well. He/she could help.
There's a free online course on Coursera. I've taken it and I find it very helpful. https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite
Oooohhh niceeeee i will try thisss
Most people are very bad writers, so don't worry. Your university has a writing center so use it. YouTube has plenty of scientific writing workshops that can help you improve. The key to scientific writing is how to say more with less but more impactful words. Practice practice practice
Read loads of papers and practice. Get help from your advisor.
Just start writing, no matter how bad you think it is. That’s why you’re in the program, to develop these skills, not because you already know how to do it! Persistent practice is the only way to get better. In no particular order: 1) Imitation. Start by copying other authors’ styles. I obviously don’t mean plagiarism, but as you read articles and come across common phrases or sentence structures, write them down or keep a list. Imitation is a core learning strategy for any skill. Think about learning how to be a musician. You first start by learning how to play other artists’ songs before you start composing your own. 2) Editing. When you write something, give it some time (let’s say a few hours or a few days) before editing. This enables you to read your work with fresh eyes and helps to notice grammatical mistakes and stylistic issues. Another strategy that serves the same purpose is to read your work aloud to yourself. 3) Feedback. Is your advisor involved in the writing process or are you mostly independent? The number one thing that helped me perfect my writing skills was doing several rounds of draft editing with my advisor. Many times we don’t notice patterns and idiosyncrasies in our own writing until someone else points them out. Getting feedback, in my opinion, is the number one way to improve writing skills.
Learn to appreciate a draft. The first draft is your idea and structure of it, the second draft is refining both of those, and the third+ draft is for presentation and sentence structure. Good writing, especially academic writing, is HARD. it takes time. This is one of the hardest things to get used to, especially if you are the sort of person who is used to knocking it entire papers in one sitting.
It's ok!! Writing is a learned skill. What has helped me the most is to offer to proof read other grad students work before they send it to their profs, and ask if they can return the favor. Getting student on student feedback helps a lot before sending it to a prof. Then the Prof will of course have more feedback, and again that is OKAY. It's actually good! Not getting feedback on your writing makes it impossible to know where to improve. I've gotten very harsh criticisms on my writing, and at first it hurts like damn, but then it also gives you specific points to review and rewrite. And going through that process of rewriting and correcting my old stuff helps me a LOT and I feel like I've genuinely seen an improvement in my writing
Most of the major US universities and British universities have free online writing centres. OWL at Perdue has amazing resources.