Word: On writing scentific papers

 From Improbable Research

Let’s re-write the scientific paper
R. Webster
European Journal of Soil Science, vol. 54, no. 2, pages 215–218, June 2003.

“Let us report our research more nearly as it happened; let us overcome our fear of revealing our humanity, our good luck, even our failings, and acknowledge the contributions from our intuition and imagination as well as the hard graft in the field and at the bench. Let us also liven our prose by writing more in the active voice and so that readers can know who did what and who is responsible. Let us convey the wonder of discovery in our writing without sacrificing scientific rigour; then soil research would be seen to be exciting with a bright future.”