Understanding the context - What is scientific writing? - Some preliminaries

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

Understanding the context
What is scientific writing?
Some preliminaries

What is clear to a recipient depends both on what is transmitted and how the recipient interprets it. Therefore, communicating clearly requires awareness of what the recipient brings. What is the recipient’s background? What is the recipient seeking? How does the recipient expect the writing to be organized?

Clarity in scientific writing requires attentiveness to such questions. As communication professionals advise, know your audience. Also know the conventions, and thus the expectations, for structuring the type of writing that you are doing.