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Planning/writing your paper
The first steps
• Sort out the results and their presentation; your story is built around them, so they come first
• Then decide your storyline – the most important decision; this is the foundations for your MS
• Sometimes, even with our own data, we fail to see something important in the data that we missed; so run the story past colleagues to see if they are convinced
• This will also uncover any data gaps/inconsistencies that you will need to deal with when telling your story
Order of manuscript writing
• Results and Figure legends
• Materials & Methods (optional)
• Introduction
• Discussion
• Abstract (If you are writing for HR, then I would suggest writing the extended abstract after compiling the Results and Figures)
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