How To Write a Research Paper Fast and Easy (3 Tips by Prof. David Stuckler)

hey everyone how's it going professor david stuckler here tremendously excited to share this session with you today on my three best tips to write a research paper faster and one of the things i see so commonly students banging their head against the wall feeling frustrated going circles and losing so much time writing their papers and i hate it because at universities i've taught at harvard cambridge oxford now bocconi and milan and we don't teach any writing training sometimes the library has some offerings from people who haven't even done phds you guys need proper writing training it's probably one of the most important skills you're gonna get as a graduate student that's gonna carry with you for the rest of your life to be able to communicate clearly synthesize evidence and communicate it to others rapidly by the end of this video you're gonna know exactly what you need to do to write your paper and you're gonna wonder why you haven't done this before because it's gonna save you so much time first tip use our two-step method for writing a research paper by two-step i really mean you need to do one thing first and a second thing next you need to have the research done you need to know what you want to say you need to have your arguments lined up before you start writing writing is simply a bit like cooking right when you want to cook to focus on cooking well you need to have your onions chopped your vegetables at the side your olive oil ready and only that way can you really focus on getting the cooking right you don't be scrambling around the kitchen trying to put everything together at once because odds are you're just not going to get anything done right you're going to feel stressed so what you need to do is make sure before you ever write that you have that clarity about what you want to say that your research is actually done you don't do the research by writing you do the research first you follow a two-step method and then you start putting it on paper that brings me to my second key point when you write your research paper you don't want to start with a hard part first that's just a recipe for getting stuck and banging your head against the wall you want to start with the easy part first to get you in a good flow and a good rhythm get you feeling confident and get things moving the easy part is a bit counterintuitive it's often not where grads start when they're writing their papers but you want to start with the methods start with methods because that's something you should have already done if you followed our two-step approach and you're simply going to outline what you did if you've done a literature review you're going to outline how did you search for papers how did you evaluate them what thematic analysis did you do um whatever approach you took you know what approach you took if you didn't take an approach and you did some hodgepodge of well i just kind of put some stuff together well your writing is difficult because the original sin traces back to your very messy approach so if you're trying to convey a messy approach you're gonna have a very messy paper that doesn't make sense so oftentimes i see some of the challenges with writing traced to problems in the underlying steps so if your methods are good start with the methods and just explain what you did and for most the vast majority of people writing papers that comes quite naturally now we're also going to give you a way if it doesn't come naturally for you to articulate your ideas and main points so that they are very clear for others to see so start with the methods and write the paper from the inside outgoing methods results conclusion save that hard part for last the introduction that's kind of the monster the paper so hard to write we've got a simple method to help you do it but save that for last the third tip you really need to know to write effectively and write fast is you need to use our peer system so our peer system stands for point evidence explain repeat and when you know what you want to say you need to ensure that every paragraph follows this pure system each paragraph is going to make one point and that point is going to then be backed up by examples and evidence and that's really the meat of your paper you should be able in your results just have if you've got certain themes or main elements main ideas you want to bring out in your results section should have a point one point only backed up by the evidence and examples from your analysis to make it clear followed by sometimes appears called a hamburger model because you have a point sandwiched by a linking or a repeating point at the bottom it's kind of like the bun of the bread to help you transition to the next point so your paper is going to be a structure in which you're taking the reader by the hand point by point leading them to the logical confusions where you want to drive them again to reiterate if you have not done the research yet you're just not ready to write a research paper because how are you going to take somebody invite them into your car and drive them to to the city over if if you don't have a map you need to know where you're taking your reader and have clarity about that so before you even start use our peer system after you've written your methods together point by point through the paper through to the very end i've actually got another little tip i want to tuck in here related to this first two-step point and that is before you start writing make sure you have what we call a result set and that results that is your tables and figures done because these are really the meat of your research this is going to be the story of your paper and you want to make sure that at a glance if you were going to take your your print out of your tables figures you could hand it to a colleague and they could say ah i understand exactly what's happening here ah there's a nice story there you want that level of clarity and if you have that level of clarity in your results then it's gonna be so much easier to write up your results section just after your method section so take the time and energy to make sure that you have a well-crafted results that maybe use that opportunity to get feedback from your colleagues so you don't have to rewrite the paper there's nothing more annoying than having your tables and figures right up the paper get comments have to take a table out figure out change it up again the order changes have to rewrite your results again that's just a recipe for endless frustration get the result set done you're gonna have way smoother ride going forward so guys if you found this video helpful don't forget to click like subscribe to the channel for more videos at fasttrack we really aim to accelerate your research career giving you this kind of valuable support soft skills on productivity your mindset so you can really thrive through the hard skills as rolling up our sleeves and doing some rigorous quantitative data analysis and don't forget to join my exclusive facebook group fasttrack grad where we can be directly in touch we have live weekly trainings every friday and hope to see you there let us know how you do below in the comments with writing up your paper we'd love to hear from you

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Length: 6min 31sec (391 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2022