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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Rédiger pour être publié ! 2e édition 2012

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Publish or perish. This saying clearly exemplifies that science communication is vital for scientists, research bodies and nation competitiveness. Nowadays both computers and internet have deeply changed the way scientific articles are written and published. In an editorial world moving at accelerated pace, scientists are eager to get their papers published in the best journals because impact factors are ruling careers and funding. Since fundings are provided by various public and private bodies, scientific papers should be partly understandable by a wide audience from journalists to entrepreneurs, political leaders and the general public. However, as an editor of scientific journals, I observe that most submitted articles are badly structured and obscure for the average citizen. Such issues can be explained both by the lack of scientific writing education and by the classical isolation of scientists within small knowledgeable communities. This book written in French explains how to write a scientific article. I have designed guidelines from the main writing errors found in thousands of research papers that I have edited. Though most advices of this book aim at improving research articles, the principles explained here apply also to PhD thesis, industrial reports, adverts, cover letters, curriculum vitae, blogs and press releases. Indeed all those documents share in common the communication of an advance, a discovery, an innovation or a difference versus existing knowledge. This book describes how to structure easily a research article. Advices are given to correct specific errors from non-English natives. It is explained how to educate so that your article can be understood by wide readership, e.g. your future employer or a funding agency. I emphasize on how to adapt the writing style to the new means of communication using computers and Internet. You will find also a new writing tool, called the micro-article, that allows to focus your zillions of results on only one novel finding.