Literature Review Continuing our series of articles on research methods, presented in the article “How to choose the most suitable research method for your study?”, let’s start with one of the research methods most applied by the academic community, the Systematic Literature Review. A systematic literature review is one of the types of literature review that aims to summarize all existing...
Abstract Like the title, the abstract of your article, dissertation or thesis is the gateway to the reader; in addition to giving an overview of your work, it should arouse interest in your work. As the abstract has a limited amount of text, many people find it difficult to make a concise and interesting text. Thus, we are going to present a technique to facilitate the elaboration of the abstract, which consists of...
More than 80% of all scientific articles are rejected at least once before publication. Nature, for example, published less than 8% of all submissions in 2013 [1]. Also, according to Elsevier, one in three scientists finds “preparing manuscripts” a frustrating or time-consuming work activity. Specifically in Brazil, students report that the ABNT standards are the main difficulty for the construction of a scientific...
