Scientific Writing

A guide to writing papers in a scientific manner, and how to present scientific material.

Steps to Writing a Literature Review

Define your research question
Choose search terms (using both keywords and subject headings, whenever possible)
Choose databases
Run practice protocol
Survey preliminary results
Develop inclusion/exclusion criteria
Run final protocol
De-duplicate results
Screen results
1. Title/abstract screening
2. Full-text screening
Synthesize results
Write up your findings

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