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Can someone with more experience in scientific writing comment on > It’s too circuitous and indirect for a scientific report The preceding paragraph does not

• paddleon 10mo ago
  in scientific writing, you need to take 100 articles at 6 pages each and condense them to 1 article of 6 pages And add how your method/insight moves the conversation forward, along with describing your method/insight. The reason why scientific writing can be hard to read from the outside is the 100:1 compression. Decompression of that can require some knowledge of the field. Also, some people are just bad at writing.
• advisedwang 10mo ago
  The goal of a paper is to write up the actual discovery, not to tell a story or explain irrelevant background. The steps he wrote there would confuse rather than elucidate the actual discovery.