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Record W4283157739 · doi:10.55752/amwa.2022.159

Writing Your Paper from the Middle

2022· article· en· W4283157739 on OpenAlexaff
Hertzel C. Gerstein, Diana Sherifali, Imran Satia

Bibliographic record

VenueAMWA Journal · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAcademic Writing and Publishing
Canadian institutionsSt. Joseph’s Healthcare HamiltonHamilton Health SciencesMcMaster UniversityPopulation Health Research Institute
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSection (typography)Computer scienceSet (abstract data type)Process (computing)PublishingOrder (exchange)ProofreadingProgramming languagePolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Communicating the results of research using concise, jargonfree language optimize its likelihood of being read and cited by other researchers. More than 3 decades of publishing scientific articles has convinced us that the most efficient approach to writing a scientific paper is one that starts in the middle and works outward. Such an approach means that the first items to finalize and polish are the actual tables and figures that will be included in the body of the paper (including supplemental tables and figures). This entails deciding on the order of these elements that, when viewed alone, should be able to tell the story of the paper. This first step is often the most difficult, requiring the most thought. However, once achieved, it is usually a straightforward process to write the Results section (that refer to these elements) followed by the Methods section. After these sections are proofed and polished, a quick review of the Methods, Results and associated figures and tables highlight the points that need to be made in the Discussion section. The last sections written should be the Introduction, to set up the entire Methods, Results and Discussion, and the Abstract, to summarize it all. When this approach is combined with frequent proofreading of the article on some medium that is different from the one used to write it, experience has shown that the result will be a clear, uncluttered paper that is completed with a minimal number of drafts and that is most likely to be favorably reviewed and accepted for publication.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.205
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.088
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.146 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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