Writing for the Web: Different Style Considerations

Social Media Writing Style Fingerprint

We present our approach for computer-aided social media text authorship attribution based on recent advances in short text authorship verification. We use various natural language techniques to create word-level and character-level models that act as hidden layers to simulate a simple neural network. The choice of word-level and character-level models in each layer was informed through validati...

Writing for different readers

More could be done to make research papers readily understandable by the public.

Integrating Standards: Considerations for Language and Writing

Scientific Manuscript Writing 1 Writing Style and Manuscript Organization

This article was written to complement the extensive reviews. It presents techniques for optimally relaying the content and meaning of scientific studies and for avoiding common problems. It begins with key features of the standard journal sections, tables, and figures and suggests strategies for their effective construction. It then discusses simple strategies to construct succinct sentences t...

Writing With Style: APA Style Made Easy, Third Edition

I am not sure whether learning or teaching scientific writing in general, and APA style in particular, is more difficult. Fortunately for students and teachers alike, Lenore Szuchman has written a text that has the potential to ease the process. Szuchman's book begins with a chapter that encourages students to see themselves as psychologists-in-training rather than lay people who find psycholog...