Практические советы начинающим исследователям по написанию научных статей

Написание научной статьи и ее подготовка к публикации в научном журнале часто оказывается существенной проблемой для человека, делающего первые шаги в науке. Многочисленные руководства на эту тему, выложенные на сайтах образовательных ресурсов, содержат ответы далеко не на все вопросы, возникающие у тех, кто впервые берется за написание научной статьи, да и созданы эти руководства часто авторами, которые уже забыли свои студенческие годы. Данная публикация представляет собой попытку обобщения и структурирования как наиболее полных, на наш взгляд, методик и руководств такого рода, так и собственный опыт написания научных статей.

How To Write Research Papers: Practical Tips for Novice Researchers

For novice researchers, one of the significant problems is the writing of a research article in which they could publicize their results. In the Russian higher school they do not teach how to write articles, and the authors of methodical manuals on this topic write as if they had already forgotten how they themselves were students and post-graduate students of the first year of study. This methodological work is, in fact, the set of tips is purposed to guide, primarily, those who are on their way to engage in research activities and plan to publish the results in any scientific journal. In the leaflet we have tried to give answers to those questions that may arise in the process of preparing material to make the publication, for example: general statements about the essence of having the publication, how to analyze sources, and line up the whole work on potential publication. Moreover, this work may also be useful to researchers who have already had the experience in publishing their scientific results; they may also find useful information while reading. We should note that it is the idealized algorithm for writing the article to be proposed in the text, which is not always feasible in real life for a number of either personal or external circumstances. Let us not, in particular, forget that there is no single recipe for writing scientific texts, and this set of tips is kind of a landmark for the author in the world of scientific researching. Each author develops his own approaches and algorithms in the process of activity that enable to work efficiently on his own research. We hope that this methodological work will help the novice researcher to understand the issues of writing the scientific article, and will greatly facilitate the understanding of the whole creating articles’ process from the literature search prior to the submission of articles to the journal.