How to write and publish a scientific paper - Barbara Gastel, Robert A. Day 2022

The scope of scientific writing
What is scientific writing?
Some preliminaries

State your facts as simply as possible, even boldly. No one wants flowers of eloquence or literary ornaments in a research article.

—R. B. McKerrow

The scope of scientific writing

The term scientific writing commonly denotes the reporting of original research in journals through scientific papers that follow a standard format. In its broader sense, scientific writing also includes communication about science through other types of journal articles, such as review papers summarizing and integrating previously published research. And in a still broader sense, it includes other types of professional communication by scientists—for example, grant proposals, oral presentations, and poster presentations. Related endeavors include writing about science for the public, sometimes called science writing.