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Specific Writing
Dental Research Management CentreUniversity of Malaya
+Specific writing
Writing Grant application/Award
Project licence/ ethical approval writing
Lab book writing
Report writing (Monitoring, audit and end of Project)
Abstract writing
Extended abstract/proceeding writing
Paper writing
Thesis/dissertation writing
+Scientific Writing, Research Methodology and medical Statistics courses/workshops
+Writing Grant application/Award
The application process
(what exactly we want to find out,? Worth finding? how to do it)
Select funding body & Types of grants, training fellowship, mini grants
Calls for proposals
What the grant will cover (costings)
The assessment procedure
+Project licence/ ethical approval writing
Animal licence & Clinical trials (IRBs)- 3Rs principles
MoH- one approval for all
Lab book (Light blue book with serial number)– issue by DRMC and belongs to University of Malaya
Patent writing
+What committees look for?
An important research question
A timely topic
A well presented application
An appropriate research method
Methodological details
Feasibility
Experienced researchers
Implications of the findings
Dissemination
(will the study succeed? Will the answer be worth having? Does the study represent value for money?)
+Report Writing
Format
(HIR/MOHE, UMRG/E-Science Fund, FRGS, ERGS, LRGS etc)
Assess by the panel
Regular
Internal & External
Important to monitor the progress
financial implication
Accurate information
Official document
+Abstract writing (papers, conference, competition)IMRAD vs unstructured abstract Motivation:Why do we care about the problem and the
results? This section should include the importance of your work, the difficulty of the area, and the impact it might have if successful.
Problem statement:What problem are you trying to solve? What is the scope of your work (a generalized approach, or for a specific situation)?
Approach:How did you go about solving or making progress on the problem? What important variables did you control, or measure?
Results:What's the answer? Conclusions:What are the implications of your answer? Is it
going to change the practice etc? Are your results general, potentially generalizable, or specific to a particular case?
+Example
+Unstructured Abstract
Structured vs. Unstructured Abstract: A Different Look at Iranian Journals of Library Science Ali Akbar Khasseh*1, Ali Biranvand1
1. Department of library and Information Science, Payame Noor University, PO Box 19395-3697 Tehran, Iran Corresponding Author: Ali Akbar Khasseh [email protected]
ABSTRACT: The present study aims to investigate the quality of the structured versus unstructured abstracts in terms of content comprehensiveness and observing the items in APA manual.This survey uses a content analysis method. Data were collected through study of abstracts. Journals included in this study are as follows: Faslname-ye Ketab, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Information Science, Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, Library and Information Science Quarterly, Ganjine-ye Asnad, and Research on Information Sciences & Public Libraries. Of each publication, abstracts of 4 recent issues have been studied.Of 245 abstracts, 49.4 percent were structured and 50.6 percent were unstructured. The score mean for structured abstracts was higher than unstructured ones. The most frequent omission from abstracts was information about ''conclusions" and the least omission belonged to "purpose". It was revealed that most of Persian journals of LIS use structured abstracts, although the structures used were not the same. Based on findings of the current study, it seems that a structured format increases the quality of abstracts.
Keyword: abstracting, library and information science journals, structured abstract, unstructured abstract.
+Extended abstract
Yes or no?
Almost a full paper
Strategy?
+Guidelines- writing for scientific papers International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals:
Journal Guidelines
Impact Factor
+Thesis writing
Best to attend at least one academic writing workshop
Adhere to most recent thesis guidelines by University of Malaya
Ask permission for the figures used from publishers, journals etc. The earlier the better
+GUIDELINES FOR HIR PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Only Tier 1 (Quartile 1) papers are considered in the KPI by the Ministry of Education.
Soft copies of Tier 1 publications must be submitted to the HIR Secretariat IMMEDIATELY upon publication.
+Acknowledgement
There must be acknowledgement of HIR MoE grant except for International Consortium papers.
HIR WILL NOT RECOGNISE PUBLICATIONS WHICH DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE MOHE GRANT.
+Template for Acknowledgement
All Tier 1 publications should carry the following acknowledgement:
This research is supported by High Impact Research Chancellory Grant UM.C/625/1/HIR/......... from the University of Malaya
OR
This research is supported by High Impact Research MoE Grant UM.C/625/1/HIR/MoE/…….… from the Ministry of Education Malaysia.
+Duplication of HIR Grant Acknowledgement
If the publication acknowledges two or more MoE grants, only ONE grant will be recognized for KPI.
+Page Charges
PIs are strongly encouraged to publish in Tier 1 journals which do not have page charges.
Paying page charges to enable a paper to be published faster is not acceptable as a valid reason.
If there are page charges incurred, these will have to come out of the PIs' grants.
PERMISSION MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE HIR COMMITTEE PRIOR TO PUBLICATION IF THE AMOUNT FOR EACH ARTICLE EXCEEDS RM10,000.
+Insufficient fund
In the event that there is insufficient fund in the grant, the PI can write to the HIR Committee to offset this.
Any claims for HIR Tier 1 papers must be sent to the HIR Secretariat.
CLAIMS FOR NON-TIER 1 PUBLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED.
HIR covers for editing service charges if the publication is accepted in a Tier 1 journal
+Software and databases Endnote, Refworks, Papers, Sciref, reference manager
Statistical software- IBM SPSS, Stata, STATISTICA, Minitab, Check UM licence and open source
Sample size calculator
Visual display softwares
Version
Latex
Finite Element Analysis softwares
Turnitin
Third party softwares