Write a Scientific Paper (WASP): Coda, but our revels now are not ended. (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Grech, Victor
• Is Part Of: Early human development. Volume 134(2019)
• Page Start: 50
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: Fetus -- Periodicals; Neonatology -- Periodicals; Prenatal influences -- Periodicals; 612.65
• DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2019.05.012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0378-3782

Abstract

Abstract: The possibility of assembling this series of Best Practice Guidelines papers pertaining to WASP (Write a Scientific Paper) arose from the international WASP course, and the realisation that the Statistics at Square One papers initially published in the British Medical Journal in the 1970s, dealing with medical statistics using a hand calculator were now completely superseded by spreadsheets. Early Human Development has now published a complete set of guidelines on virtually all matters pertaining to WASP. All of these were written by academics from the University of Malta. This final set wraps up by elaborating on the techniques that best create effective graphs and tables, as well as the medical guidelines that are mandated by modern research. This coda should be viewed by WASP novices as a tipping point from where effective papers may be created and published. Like Superman's father, we hope that we have given you "an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun… In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." Our WASP revels are therefore not ended, but just starting as authors of high quality papers.