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Planning/writing your paper
Materials & Methods
• More rather than less detail (usually)
• Has to enable complete repetition by others
• Your opportunity to convince reviewers how rigorous is your planning, methodology and execution of the studies
• Statistics. Have you analysed your data correctly? Have you extracted all the useable information? Have you corrected for multiple testing?
Planning/writing your paper
Introduction
• Sets up the storyline
• Start broad and work down rapidly to the ‘level’ of the manuscript. You must set the scene, both broad and specific
• Your storyline is why your study was needed and what it will therefore deliver for the field
• Should end with main aim and often good to finish with sentence that says what is delivered (sets the mind-set)
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