Writing a research manuscript is an intimidating process for many novice writers in the sciences. One of the stumbling blocks is the beginning of the process and creating the first draft. This paper presents guidelines on how to initiate the writing process and draft each section of a research manuscript. The paper discusses seven rules that allow the writer to prepare a well-structured and com...

Savvidou Savvoula: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing- Original draft preparation; Goulis Ioannis: Supervision, Reviewing and Editing.

We propose that many potential pitfalls of a research study can be brought to light through the exercise of writing a zeroth draft of the paper before beginning formal data collection. Further, because the zeroth draft of the paper contains the elements required in most research proposals--background, rationale, approach to data analysis, methods, and significance--it may serve as a generic gra...

The iterative process of writing a co-authored manuscript in sport and exercise psychology may take several months to complete. Draft-in-a-day is an alternative group-based approach that draws on concepts from efficiently write the first draft manuscript, while providing rich opportunities for trainees develop their skills. purpose this paper was explore usefulness acceptability draft-in-a-day ...

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) provides essential services in support of maritime domain awareness. Accurate AIS values for hull dimension and type are often critical safe efficient management ship traffic, development new artificial intelligence algorithms. variables subject to faults from multiple sources, ranging bad weather human error. New heuristic methods correcting draft, bea...

Sud, please find attached a draft writing on the subject (Word 5.1 format). I guess the next process is to: reflect your comments on the draft, run through a quick editing, and prepare a final copy in the form of a letter from me to you??! Hee

This paper reports on experiments and experiences with implementations of collaborative client/server archi-tectures, a software project that involved all students in the class. Nominally, the major goal of the special topics graduate class was to explore the Frontiers of collaborative computing on the Internet. The class brought together a team of seven students, each with some programming exp...