WHOI Seminar, October 2003 Jane Dunphy, MIT

Reporting on Research: The Essentials of Preparing a Paper for Publication

This seminar will provide an overview of the tasks involved in preparing a paper for publication.

Key topics include:

• Effective titles

• Standard organizational strategies

• Graceful integration of equations, tables and figures

• Textual hierarchy

• Appropriate style

Each participant should bring with her/him a copy of an article that reports on research in the participant’s field of interest and that has been published in a prestigious journal. We will use these papers as the basis of our analysis.