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When to write your MS (timing)
• Does it significantly advance understanding in the area?
• If it replicates previous studies, does it add a new dimension or resolve previous disparate findings; if so, it is an advance
• Need conclusive, cohesive data (that tells a story)
• Timeliness! Novelty!
Basic necessities for a paper
•Best if it is hypothesis-based
•Has to offer something concrete that advances understanding and best if it delivers a useable/useful outcome (eg a new treatment or methodology, disease mechanism or endpoint)
•Key is to convince the reader that ‘your story’ is rational and (biologically) plausible........and novel
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