Practical Approach to Writing Scientific Research Papers: A Basic Introduction to Scientific Report Writing

This book is a teacher in itself, intended to guide students of tertiary institutions including researchers on one easy way to write papers for submission to a journal. The language used is kept as simple as possible for easy understanding. The book gave a general background to writing scientific research papers, what to consider before starting to write a scientific paper, how to attract other readers to your work and it enables the reader to know the qualities the editors and referees will be looking for in a paper as part of its consideration for publication. It takes each of the main parts of a research paper and looks at what usually goes into them with practical examples. Writing research papers is too wide a field to be able to cover every aspect in one small book. Other books deal in greater detail with other areas of scientific writing especially its technical details. It is not meant to be complete but as a basic introduction. I hope that the book will assist many scientists as they undertake the difficult task of writing their papers for submission to International Scientific Journals. I am delighted to publish this book and make it available to the developing world.

Dr Ijoyah,M.O. hails from Ebu, Oshimili North LGA, Delta State, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D (Farming Systems) from University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. He is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Crop Production, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. He is married to Grace T. Ijoyah and they are blessed with four children.