Comunicación científica (VIII). Conocimientos básicos para elaborar un artículo científico (3)la forma (cómo se dice)
- Francisco Javier González de Dios
- M González Muñoz
- Adolfo Alonso Arroyo
- Rafael Aleixandre Benavent
ISSN: 0001-6640
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Pages: 25-30
Type: Article
More publications in: Acta pediátrica española
Abstract
Caring for the form of the article (i.e., the scrupulous respect to the specific instructions of the journal; good distribution of sections; a clean, well organized and coherent prose) is the best attribute to enhance the scientific merits of the work, and ultimately promote the acceptance, readability and ensure that the message of the study reach the readers. This article reviews the key of "form" to improve the quality of scientific publications. These are 5 qualities to be cultivated (fluency, clarity, conciseness, simplicity and attraction), 5 defects to be avoided (artifice, emptiness, claim, monotony and ambiguity), and 5 common mistakes that we must consider (abuse acronyms, foreign words, barbarisms, redundancy and grammatical problems of morphology and punctuation).