New ways of making academic articles easier to read

作者：Hartley James^*

来源：International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2012, 12(1): 143-160.

• Academic writing
• Titles
• Structured abstracts
• Text-tables
• Theoretical study

Numerous texts and articles provide guidelines on how to write academic articles. The aim of this particular paper, however, is to focus on more recent techniques in this respect that authors might like to consider when they are writing and revising text. Using examples mainly drawn from recent issues of the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology (IJCHP), I discuss new approaches to the presentation of titles, abstracts, reader guidance, introductions, methods, results, tables, figures and conclusions. Furthermore, where appropriate, I make reference to possible differences between the writing styles of Spanish and English authors, since the IJCHP publishes papers in both of these languages. There appear to be a number of different ways in which we can improve these particular aspects of academic writing, but some of these ways might be judged more acceptable in the writings of established authors rather than in those of novices, especially those writing in a second language.

• 出版日期2012-1