7 tips for clear science writing

A lesson to increase your confidence as a writer. There are strategies you can use to write more clearly. Here are a few that have helped me. I hope it helps you too!

Here are some of the resources I used:
Strunk, W., White, E. B., & Kalman, M. (1918). The Elements of Style

Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly. Applied Cognitive Psychology: The Official Journal of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 20(2), 139-156.

Rudnick, R. L., & Fountain, D. M. (1995). Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective. Reviews of geophysics, 33(3), 267-309.

Pardi, N., Hogan, M. J., Porter, F. W., & Weissman, D. (2018). mRNA vaccines—a new era in vaccinology. Nature reviews Drug discovery, 17(4), 261-279.