1 00:00:00,610 --> 00:00:05,530 OK before we get into the actual writing, I want to give you some general pointers on how to write the 2 00:00:05,530 --> 00:00:06,650 paper. 3 00:00:06,670 --> 00:00:12,310 So first of all a very general thing is to write in past tense because the research that you're going 4 00:00:12,310 --> 00:00:15,280 to describe in the introduction section happened in the past. 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:16,900 Your own research happened in the past 6 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:18,910 by the time that people read about it. 7 00:00:18,910 --> 00:00:21,240 So write about it in the past. 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,870 Also try to use short sentences. Whenever you find that a sentence gets too long 9 00:00:26,890 --> 00:00:31,480 try to see whether you can break it up into two sentences and you will find that this will make your 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,630 writing clearer and more concise. 11 00:00:34,630 --> 00:00:40,480 Another recommendation is to use common scientific jargon. So a jargon that is common in your field. But 12 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:46,060 do explain in your text what it means at least for once to make sure that all of your readers can understand 13 00:00:46,060 --> 00:00:46,580 you. 14 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:52,300 And the reason why it's a good idea to use scientific jargon is because it will enable you to express 15 00:00:52,330 --> 00:00:55,250 a complex idea in just one word. 16 00:00:55,390 --> 00:01:01,220 So that will help you to make your writing more concise and it will also look more professional. Then, 17 00:01:01,220 --> 00:01:06,710 another recommendation is to add in-text citations using the Mendeley word plugin. 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,810 So let me show you quickly how that works. 19 00:01:09,830 --> 00:01:10,070 OK. 20 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:11,270 Here I am in word. 21 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:17,660 And if you already installed Mendeley then Mendeley will have automatically installed a word plug-in, which 22 00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:21,430 enables you to use Mendeley in Word... which is very very useful. 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,780 And where exactly you'll find this plug-in depends a little bit on the version of Word. 24 00:01:25,850 --> 00:01:32,240 I find it under "references" and now after installing Mendeley I have a number of new buttons such as 25 00:01:32,690 --> 00:01:40,050 "insert or edit citation" and using this button I can very easily create perfect in-text citations. 26 00:01:40,190 --> 00:01:47,180 So let's say for example that I want to say that cognitive therapy works very well. 27 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,700 And I had a citation for that. 28 00:01:49,730 --> 00:01:53,490 So I click on "insert or edit" citation. 29 00:01:53,990 --> 00:01:59,600 Then I go to Mendeley and now Mendely is going to ask me what article I want to cite. 30 00:01:59,870 --> 00:02:02,780 And I can type in any search term to find that article. 31 00:02:02,780 --> 00:02:10,820 So I'm just gonna use "cognitive therapy" and there it is" "A meta analysis of the efficacy of cognitive 32 00:02:10,820 --> 00:02:12,340 therapy for depression." 33 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:16,110 So I click on that and I say OK. 34 00:02:16,550 --> 00:02:22,370 And now Mendeley sends me back to Word and it adds a perfect in-text citation and it's gonna make sure 35 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:23,930 that the formatting is perfect. 36 00:02:23,930 --> 00:02:29,390 So for example if you have several citations it will order the citations in the correct order or if 37 00:02:29,390 --> 00:02:35,090 you have used a citation before and that means that you need to change the citation in some way, it will 38 00:02:35,090 --> 00:02:41,270 change the citation. So it will immediately create a perfect in-text citation. By the way, in my case I 39 00:02:41,270 --> 00:02:47,780 need APA format. If you need a different format then you can go to this drop down menu and choose a 40 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:49,010 different citing format. 41 00:02:49,010 --> 00:02:52,570 But I need APA so I'm going to stick to APA here. 42 00:02:52,730 --> 00:02:55,700 And by the way you can also customize your citations. 43 00:02:55,700 --> 00:03:00,340 So say for example that I want to use the name of the author in the text. 44 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:02,250 So say, I want to write that 45 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:10,020 "DOBSON showed that cognitive therapy works very well." 46 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:17,090 Well, in that case in APA format I'm not supposed to use the author name again in the in-text citation 47 00:03:17,270 --> 00:03:19,940 but I'm just supposed to use the year. 48 00:03:19,970 --> 00:03:30,020 So in that case I again click "insert or edit citation" then I go to Mendeley again I search the article. 49 00:03:30,020 --> 00:03:32,540 There it is. 50 00:03:32,540 --> 00:03:36,400 And now instead of clicking on "OK" I click on the citation again. 51 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:39,530 And now I can customize my citation. 52 00:03:39,530 --> 00:03:44,450 So here for example I can add a page number which I would have to do if I wanted to quote something 53 00:03:44,450 --> 00:03:45,900 from this article. 54 00:03:46,010 --> 00:03:53,660 But in this case I just want to suppress the author so I'm gonna check that and I click OK and now it 55 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:56,620 gives me a citation using just the year. 56 00:03:56,630 --> 00:04:01,310 So in this way without knowing exactly what the citation style is gonna look like, you're gonna get perfect 57 00:04:01,310 --> 00:04:02,380 citations. 58 00:04:02,570 --> 00:04:07,820 And best of all, if you add citations using this word plug-in then at the end of your article when you 59 00:04:07,820 --> 00:04:16,340 want to add your references, you can just click on this button here "insert bibliography" and it will automatically 60 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:19,600 add all the references that you used in the text. 61 00:04:19,670 --> 00:04:24,830 So I strongly recommend that you use the word plug in of Mendeley to add in-text citations.