👋 Welcome back to ‘How to Write a Paper’ (pt 4)

✍️This week = ‘How to Write a DISCUSSION’

📜We’ll be using @SohamBGlobal et al.'s excellent @GlobalHealthBMJ paper “Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from #COVID19" as our exemplar study

🧵Let’s start ⏭️ 1/ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧?

👉To interpret the results - which requires you to commit & be 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱
🔗To link your results to previous studies
☝️To make recommendations
📚To help the reader understand your study strengths & limitations

👋Welcome back to the second #tweetorial in an 8 part series on "How to write a paper"

✍️This series is designed to help you improve your academic writing & includes top tips from established academics & journal editors.

THIS WEEK = "How to write a Methods Section"... 🧵👇👇 1/❓Why write a Methods Section at all?

🗣️I like @DrSicchia's articulation of why a Methods Section is important:

🧁Think of your Methods Section like a recipe...

"It should be clear so that readers can see & interrogate exactly what’s been done & how to replicate the study"

👋Welcome to the first #tweetorial in an 8 part series on "How to write a paper"

✍️This series is designed to help you improve your academic writing & includes top tips from established academics and journal editors.

✅We start this week with "How to write an Introduction"... 1/ ⚠️Start your Introduction with a gripping first sentence - spell out why your topic is important!

🗣️ According to @seyeabimbola, Editor of @GlobalHealthBMJ "Academic writing is persuasive writing".

➡️ Let's look at an example of a compelling opening statement 👇👇