Getting Ready for a Conference

Research

There is more to making presentation and packing your bags for a conference. Here are some tips to get the most out of a conference.

1. Your presentation
Prepare extensively for your presentation. In fact, after giving similar presentations on your research topic, you would still need enough time to give a good presentation.

Who’s your audience:
You should determine beforehand that are you presenting to researchers or people from the industry and from your own field only or different fields?

Requirements:
Always check the guidelines of the organizers before you start making your presentation because your poster size can vary with those of the boards provided by the organizers.

Slides:
Always make clear slides. Don’t write too many sentences on a single slide, make sure the font is large enough and you present your slides in an attractive way.
Practice:
Practice your presentation with some colleagues or friends. Track the time you need for your presentation, and don’t use too many slides.

2. Making Connections

Talk with speakers or persons from the organizing committee, as you can get help from these experts both academically and for career opportunities. I have seen researchers making connections with fellows of different universities and labs and mutually benefiting by the facilities in their labs.

3. Attending sessions

You should decide early which session you would like to attend from the conference schedule. Look for interesting topics and attend a session to broaden your perspective.

4. Prepare for traveling

To avoid getting stressed out right before your journey, make sure to have everything ready, including: travelling tickets, hotel reservation and confirmation of your registration at the conference. Check visa requirements if you’re traveling abroad and all your other important documents. All this should make sure that traveling itself does not take up too much of your energy to avoid that you arrive at the conference exhausted from traveling.

5. Sight Seeing

Apart from attending the conference, if the venue of your conference is a travelling destination, then you should also plan to visit the famous places in that place. You can check the places online which you should visit and plan accordingly.

Here are 5 Advices for Catching Errors in Manuscript so that you get it Published

Dissertation

When preparing manuscript for achieving academic goals, you have to be careful about the way your manuscript is presented and is error-free. Remember, if you want your ,manuscript to get green signal from your professor, then be sure that you check them inch by inch for mistakes. How you can do it has been listed as below:

Simple misspellings are common when penning down your manuscript, so you should carefully use all spelling and grammar and re-check them for perfect manuscript.

Get a second person to check your manuscript and for this you need assistance of an expert who is aware of the rules followed for dissertation paper. Seek help of a professional who know how to produce a precise work of dissertation so that at the end of day you can be sure of what you write and how well it is presented.

As for yourself, you can be your best critic. Make sure of it by going through the manuscript backwards. Critical view of spellings, grammar and language will help you pick on mistakes. This will help you step on mistakes if you had missed them for the first time.

By reading the manuscript loud it will help you spot the mistakes since the errors in it will be audible to you. Repeat the manuscript in your mind and in this way you will quickly understand if there is any awkward sentence or something is not sounding right.

Most important, you need the right proof-reader or manuscript expert who can help you with the checking. When delivering your paper in hands of someone for the final checking, ensure that it is an authentic source so that nothing goes awry while checking. The sources are confirmed and you have all rules in place. So, bu]y following the above methods you can avoid errors in manuscripts.

Abstract Writing Fast Forward

Formatting

When you select a conference to attend, the very next thing which comes in your mind is writing an abstract according to the conference guidelines. Then you start to think which work you want to publish in that abstract from all the work you have done in your research. As such there is no set formula for writing abstract and it can depend totally on your work and writing style but however there is good recipe for making a nice abstract which can work almost anywhere.

An abstract is a brief summary of the paper but actually it’s much more than that as it not only say something about your research, but also about yourself, provides an idea of why this abstract provides an added value to the conference. An evaluator will not only study your proposal but also the zeal you have for your topic and the details with which the abstract has been drafted.

Keep these points in mind while writing an abstract

  • Verify that your topic really fits the call for papers
  • Limit yourself to the word count that is indicated by the organizers
  • Follow the instructions for formatting the proposal

I’ve found what really works for me to write an abstract in a fast forward mode. As you have to focus on different sections of an abstract.

The different sections an abstract should generally contain:

Background: Why do we care about the problem and the results?

Objective: What problem are you trying to solve?

Methodology: How you are going to solve the problem?

Results: What were the results of your research?

Conclusions: What are the implications of your answer?

Whenever you need to write an abstract, copy and paste these points into a new document and answer them one by one. Style and grammar don’t matter initially as you have to get the ideas out first.
These answers then make up the first draft of your abstract. Convert the abstract into a readable text, in correct English with proper grammar, making sure the entire abstract flows from its objective towards the conclusions.

How to Write an Eye-Catching Cover Letter for Manuscript?

Methodology and Analysis

It’s good that you do with your manuscript and are ready for its submission, but prior to that the most essential task is still enduring i.e. writing a cover letter for your manuscript. You might be tormenting that if you have written your manuscript well then why is cover letter so important? For sure, it is important to clutch a cover letter with your manuscript as it gives a sense of completeness to it. Also, many journals have some specific requirements to be mentioned in the cover letter thus it becomes implicate to add it. Cover letters also gives a clear idea to the publisher that what is there in the manuscript and why it should published in their journal. Therefore, how one can elude such an important part of a manuscript? Thus, it becomes a central task to learn the tricks of writing an eye-catching cover letter for manuscript so that it can give a reason for publishing it –

  • Starting with an introduction, don’t forget to add the title of the manuscript and the journal to which manuscript is supposed to be published.
  • Mention the reason behind your manuscript and what it is all about also write about why readers should prefer your manuscript for reading?
  • What are the problems or questions that have been solved in your research?
  • What are the major findings and solution of the research done?
  • Also mention the summary of the conclusion you have drawn from the study and what exactly was expected.
  • Write an assurance statement for the following –
  • That your write-up has not been published in any other journal and will be done for the first time.
  • Your manuscript has been approved by all the authors for its submission and publication in the journal.
  • Feel free to add any other fascinating statement in your cover-letter so that the editor may get magnetized towards it.

Thus, you can write an eye-catching cover letter for your manuscript by following aforesaid tips.

How To Make Your Covering Letter Irresistible To Potential Publishers

Dissertation, Formatting

So, you have finally been able to complete your manuscript and are ready to send it to publishing houses for consideration. You would need to send not only the manuscript but also a synopsis of your write-up and a covering letter along with it. Many writers do not know the significance of a cover letter. They do not understand that it is the first thing that a publishing house would take a look at. Here is how you can make your cover letter irresistible to potential publishers.

Approach the right publishers

Make sure that you approach the right publishers, to begin with. Research variegated publishers and literary agents so that you can evaluate whether they would be interested in publishing your genre of manuscript beforehand itself. For instance, if you have written a work of fiction, then do not send it to journals for publication. Similarly, take time to go through the publication guidelines and editorial rules of the journal. It may not matter how well you have written your cover letter unless and until you send the manuscript to the right publishers.

Do some research

Do some research on whom you need to address the cover letter to and what else you need to add to the cover letter apart from what you have already added. Do not simply address the cover letter to “Respected Sir/Madam.” Instead, find out the last name of the editor and address it to him or her. Keep in mind that you need to grab the attention of the audience of the cover letter. Many editors have to go through several cover letters every month. So, write it so effectively that they will not reject it. Make sure you summarise the central idea of your manuscript and add it to the cover letter before sending it across. Open the cover letter with an exciting quote from your manuscript.

How to Write 100 Percent Unique Dissertation?

Dissertation

Unique dissertation refers to everything you write should be written on your own. It should not be copied from the previous research papers or from any online resource. Writing dissertation means your original content which should not be copied, reused or resold by another party. Using someone else’s written matter in your dissertation is a crime, if caught a strict action can be taken. If you want to start the process of reducing or removing plagiarism in your dissertation, then you should initiate with a check of it in your draft. Proper online tools and software are available, which can help you check whether your document is unique or not. When you start checking your written matter on the tool, it will show how much you have the unique matter in the dissertation plus it will also display where the plagiarism exist, highlighting that particular line with red color, that needs to be corrected. If you find a single line detected on the tool, then make sure you correct it and making it unique.

Sometimes, it becomes important to include some derivations or formulas which are mentioned earlier or have already been published in journals. When this type of dilemma occurs, then it is a good practice to use references in the dissertation paper. Here, using references means you are referring that particular matter is written by some individual and that particular statement or formula is used. Because with that particular statement or formula, the dissertation work would be completed. Sometimes it does happen in the dissertations, some students choose to improve the results this is known as comparative study, at that moment those formulas are completely used.

Nowadays, students cannot manage their dissertation writing along with their studies, hence websites do offer this service to get your dissertation plagiarism free by paying some certain amount.

Peer Review and Its Advantages for You as a Research Student

Research

If you are a doctoral research student, then you might have the desire to get your paper published in a high impact factor journal, just as many other PhD students do. However, it is very important to know about the entire publishing process before you go on submitting your research paper or manuscript. A major thing you should know about is the activity of peer review conducted by journals.

Peer review is basically the process where a group of peer reviewers or subject matter experts review and evaluate your project on various factors and parameters. They consider the rules and publishing standards of the journal and then tally your work against these standards. The process actually checks the fitment of your project for the journal’s target readers. A peer reviewer for your project is always assigned from the same academic field that you belong to.

Peer reviewers not only judge the quality and contributions of your study, but also loom at its validity and relevance. These reviewers generally evaluate your work after an initial screening is done by the editor of the journal. Thus, they go into the depths of your content and check its correctness on linguistic, formatting, factual and stylistic parameters. They read your ideas and judge your arguments presented on the study topic. If there are any kinds of errors found in your content, then they provide you relevant feedback on it.

After reviewing your work, they also give you feedback regarding any gap in literature or scope for improvement in specific sections. Thus, such constructive feedback can always make you improve your work. Peer review basically helps you to make your work fit for your readers. Thus, you should not panic if you your paper is sent back with peer review comments and take it in a positive sense.

Write a Conference Paper in a Jiffy! Do It or Not?

Formatting, Peer Reviewing

Having been into blogging for quite a time now, I have been enjoying most writing about writing. It serves as a way to reflect upon my work and use it as a tool to help improvise.

The first and foremost thing that comes to my mind when I talk of writing is that the focus should not be on getting it right, rather it should be on getting it written. There is always scope to get it right later.

Procrastination is a trait we all live with, or rather we are born with. Keep that approach away from writing. However, if you are compelled by it and have as less as 3 days before you got to submit a paper, what do you do? Oh well, nothing, just start getting writing. There isn’t any time there.

1. To begin with, calm down and relax. There isn’t another way to get more organised. If you have already done the task of procrastination, there is a need to take eustress and not distress. Take the pressure as positive pressure and get into the mood. Eustress is good stress; convert your negative pressure into positive pressure. Soulful music or meditation could be helpful here.

2. Productive writing cannot be done without planning. That is imperative and we have been talking about it. Writing plans is something, we all are good at. Like the wise have said, well begun is half done. So planning is must.

3. The next task should be filling up the spaces. There may not be a standard rule to fill the gaps. Some prefer to begin with the introduction while some like to leave it for the end. I suggest, the beginning task should be the simplest for you. It only helps in building up confidence. I repeat again, leave the criticism for later and concentrate on the writing part. Step by step, complete the full paper.

4. Do not stop here, now that you would have followed by advice of focusing on writing and not on writing right. It is one job done. Now you got to make the writing right. Read your paper, not once but again and again, till the time you do not feel confident of your work. Rechecking your work saves you a lot of embarrassment at the end of the reviewers.
5. It wouldn’t get better, if you would get your work checked by your supervisor. If you have shortage of time, as you have delayed it may not be possible to get the feedback of the supervisor so quickly. Do ask for peer help if you feel the need.

6. Do live by the deadline

7. These is essential and NOT TO BE MISSED, treat, yourself for having made the accomplishment. You deserve it so celebrate the way you like.

Find here some amazing tips on how to become an organised writer. Use technology and improvise:

It Never Ends There!

Formatting, Questionnaire Development

When big tasks need to be completed, you may win some and lose some, the idea is to go on trying. The same holds true for when you are on the task of writing a manuscript. Some people are successful and go on to get themselves published and recognized, the others are not so lucky and need to try again. However, there are those few who need to see what they can do to realize that getting rejected is not the end of the world. Small actions and changes in life will lead you to success.

Take a deep breath: You have been slogging day and night to have your work completed and do it to reach success, you dint, but it doesn’t matter. Take a deep breath, play with your dog, go for a walk, smell the roses and start again. It is bound to work when you feel fuel it with positivity.

Choose to use the stumbling stone: Make sure you do not let your resources and work go for a waste. All or part of your previously done study may be used for the fresh trial and who knows, some of it may even strengthen your work.

Take help, because no mountain is climbed without a harness: When you have your work read and reviewed by someone who knows it well, you may be able to feel safer this time around. Important inputs may be received and you can work around your project in a more prepared manner.

Stay focused and make it till the end: Never lose hope or give up. Big achievements are never easily acquired, you need to put in your heart, soul and sweat into the task to get it done right. Jumping long distance takes a lot of effort and focus.

No task is ever too big, when you know you have no other choice but to achieve it, you know you are in the right direction.

It Doesn’t End at the Content

Formatting

When you are in the process of writing a research and dream of making it big with your work. You are expected to keep your search diverse and your methods of presentation unique and you need to have accuracy in your work. All said and done, fact is that, just having the right things to show will not suffice for you to actually make it through. There are a whole lot of things that you need to be careful about apart from the content matter itself.

The evaluators check for grammar, spelling and style of writing. This means that if you think you can escape with just crunching numbers and not concentrate on making it sound good, you were going wrong all the while.

There are formatting styles that are expected to be followed by those who write a research. If the formatting is not conformed to, chances are very high that you will have to do it again. No one accepts work that is not in a standard research format.

Having a diverse range of study projection is not enough for having a project get the nod. You need to ensure that the style of presentation is also different and impressive. If the read is interesting along with being accurate, nothing can stop you from your goal.

When you embark on your journey of presenting a research, you need to think beyond content. When you realize that you need to put in a lot more effort in your work apart from gathering the right data there is high possibility of you striking gold. Good things happen with faith, perseverance and out of the box thinking, you know you are smiling all the way when you have it all worked out as a package, when it comes to writing a research paper.