1. Scientific Writing Prof Jatna Supriatna, Ph
Scientific Writing Prof Jatna Supriatna, Ph.D Dept of Biology Univ Indonesia
Experiences:
Chief Editor, Tropical Biodiversity
Co-editor, Asian Journal Primatology
Managing Editor, Asian Journal of Biodiversity
Consulting Editor:
Tropical Conservation Science (SAGE)
Park Journal (IUCN)
International Journal of Wildlife research and Policy
Biosphere Conservation
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2. Scientific Writing Scientific?????
But in science the credit goes to the man (or woman) who convinces the world, not to the man (or woman) to whom the idea first occurs Sir Francis Darwin
Scientific?????
Contributing to the world of knowledge
Originality
Critical thinking and insight
A clear focus … but on what?
Coherent
Structured
Scientific style
No mistakes

3. Task vs. process How do you go about the writing task?
Why the process is important
It is about organization, avoiding frustration, finding your focus, productive writing and …
… a final product to be proud of

4. Scientific style
Formality: creating distance between writer and reader
Goal: objectivity
But style and formulation should not make the reading task impossible
In this section: a few problems related to style and formulation

5. Writing an introduction
An important structuring mechanism
Anouncing the topic
Motivation to undertake the study
Most important findings in the published literature
Research problem and hypotheses
Brief review of following chapters

6. As concrete as possible
Problem statement
Specific
Highly focused, clear
As concrete as possible
Preferably one problem statement; may be broken up into a number of subproblems

7. Problem statement
Discussion of the problem statement in the example text:
Can you find a single sentence denoting the problem statement?
Where exactly is the focal element in the section?
Another example on the overhead ...

8. The answer to your problem statement
Hypothesis
The answer to your problem statement
Should be refutable
Should not be negative

9. Presentation of findings Discussion of findings
Other components
Theoretical framework
Literature review
Research design: Problem statement(s), hypotheses, pilot study, sample taking, sample size, measuring instruments, statistical techniques, etc.
Presentation of findings
Discussion of findings
Conclusions