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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

Learn more:

Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students
by NCSU Libraries

Articles on writing literature reviews

Last Updated: Oct 15, 2024 10:30 AM
URL: https://libraryguides.neomed.edu/scientific-and-medical-writing
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Subjects: Biomedical Research, Research & Writing

Tags: student resources, student services

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