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Jia Ng, MD MSCE Profile picture
@jiahweing
May 31 • 12 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
What Makes a Research Paper Truly "Academic"? 📚🔬

It took me 2 years to finally get this insight 🤔
🧵
1/  Is it the use of formal words? 🤷 
Business writings use formal words too. 

Is it tables and tables of data? 📊 
We get data reports all the time, but they aren't research papers.
2/ 🗂️ What makes a research paper "academic" is the presence of Research Arguments. 🎓

❌ No, it is not about how researchers compete or argue about science.
3/ Here's a simple framework for you:

[Research Argument = "Claim" + "Evidence."] 📑🔍
4/ Claim?
A claim is your stand or opinion about your research. 💡
5/ Evidence?

Evidence can take various forms:
- Statistics
- Your own study findings
- Other people's study findings (references). 📊
6/ When your paper is full of claims but lacks evidence...
➡️ it is merely a blog post about your opinion.

Then you'll get these reviewer comments: 
"The authors are making claims without providing any evidence"
"The paper is highly speculative"
7/ When your paper is full of data and statistics but lacks a claim or stand
➡️ it is merely a report.

Then you'll get these reviewer comments: 
"The paper suffers from a lack of direction"
"It is unclear how the data can be used"
8/ ACTION STEPS:

What to master the craft of building research arguments fast? 
Here are 2 simple things you can do:
9/
 Step 1. Go find a research paper published in a high-impact journal and read through the discussion section. 

- In each paragraph, can you find a claim? 
- How bold were their claims?
- Can you see how they use evidence to support the claims?
10/
 Step 2. Now, turn your attention to your own research paper. 📝 

- Is there a claim in the paragraph ❓ 
- What evidence did you provide to support your claim? 
- How can you strengthen it with additional evidence? 🤔
11/ By adopting the lens of the "Research Argument", your research paper will improve substantially. 📚✨

Try it and let me know how it goes.

#Research #AcademicWriting

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Jia Ng, MD MSCE Profile picture
May 29
As a new faculty, I was given protected research time.
But still...could never bring myself to write. 
My old excuse, "no protected time," was no longer valid. 
I hadn't trained myself to write.

Here's the steps I used to build a writing habit when "writing was not my thing".🖊️
The main obstacles to developing this habit were
- inconsistency
- lack of structure
- lack of muscle memory
- not anticipating obstacles.
Let's look at a simple plan to build your writing habit. 
This takes 30 minutes a day, for 3 consecutive weeks (Mon-Fri).
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May 28
"Instead of the S&P 500, most should invest in the S&Me 500" -  @AlexHormozi 

This is the biggest insight I've learned being a after becoming a physician-researcher for 3 years and mentoring others.
@AlexHormozi A researcher needs a completely different skillset from a doctor to achieve academic success.

So, do not expect it to be easy. 

There will be new skills to be gained, mental barriers to be broken
@AlexHormozi If we want to successfully break into research, we must invest in ourselves.

How do we invest in ourselves?
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Jia Ng, MD MSCE Profile picture
May 27
I struggled to publish research papers until I developed the habit of writing.

Now, I write daily from 8-10am Tuesdays through Fridays.

These were the 4 mindset shifts that helped me break through. 💡
1/ My identify as a professional writer

I learned that:
{A profession = paid occupation}
If I am a paid to publish my research, I am technically paid to be a writer
What do professionals do?
    - They work DURING work hours
    - They do not wait for motivation to strike them. They just do the work
    - They constantly improve on their craft

So, I started scheduling writing time into my calendar.
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May 26
Are we putting too much emphasis on "playing with kids", and neglecting "working with kids"?
My best memories with my parents were the times where they told me "war stories" from their work, not the times where they played toys with me. 

That's because, the work stories and life lessons resurfaced again as I grew into them and as I learned to be an adult.
For the past 6 months, we've spent a lot of time WORKING together as a family.

 And that has made all the difference in our household.
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Oct 24, 2022
I used to hate clinics because...

1. I finish completing charts at night. 
2. I spend hours and hours calling patients back
3. I can't find time to do research work.
4. I'm too tired to write at 10pm

🧵below
Then I changed my process and...

1. Got 6-8 hours back.. per week. 
2. All notes are done the moment the clinic ends
3. The number of phone calls dropped by 80%
4.  Have better patient engagement/satisfaction
5. Got back time to write during the day

Some tips below 👇
1/ Labs drawn before clinic appointment

Because we have an in-house lab, I thought that patients would find it inconvenient to do it before visit.

But they actually found the clinic visit more meaningful when I could show them and discuss results in person.
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Oct 23, 2022
When I was a first year medical resident, I became a mother.

Right before I delivered, I was the star intern.

But when I came back 4 weeks after giving birth, the Attendings were asking:

"What happened to Jia?"
• I disappeared in the middle of rounds.
• I didn't know my patients well.
• I completed my notes late.
What was I doing instead?

• Sneaking out 4 times a day to pump.
• Calling my mom to see how my baby was doing.
• Feeling guilty because I chose to go back to work so soon.
• Feeling worried that others will notice that I was no longer putting 100% into work.
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