It will be helpful to go through Ethics in Writing for researchers and phd scholars. It will explain about various ethics of writing and how to draft a manuscript along with how to improve and make your draft error free and how to select a journal for your paper. It will be useful for academicians, researchers, and writers.

1. ETHICS IN WRITING
Dr. Minisha Gupta
Researcher
Quality Cognition Private Limited
Stockholm, Sweden

2. TYPES OF WRITING:
Thesis Writing
Research Paper Writing
Case study writing
Blog Writing
Content Writing
Story telling

3. RELEVANCE OF WRITING IN OUR LIVES:
 Give us recognition
 Contribute to the literature
 Enhances creativity and innovation
 Useful for future research scholars
 Important for academics, society, and
economy

4. WHAT ARE THE ETHICS OF WRITING?
 Plagiarism free
 Original
 Novice
 Authentic and Reliable
 Creative and Innovative

5. HOW TO WRITE?
 Identify a theme or a problem to address?
 Find out its antecedents, reasons or root cause of the
problems.
 Any supporting literature available for the same (Review of
literature)
 Explain the possible outcomes or results
 Describe the strategies or solutions for the identified issues.
 Explain the methodology in case of research papers, case
studies, and theses.
 Summarize and conclude the draft.
 Give some possible future areas of work or limitations (if
any)

6. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO WORK ON REVIEW
PAPERS?
 Contributes to literature
 Narrow down the research
 Find the research gap
 It helps in defining the theories associated, themes, and
develop a conceptual model of your own.

7. HOW TO DRAFT A REVIEW/CONCEPTUAL PAPER?
Identify Research Question(s)
Develop a Research Plan
Summarize the results
Write your Literature Review

8. HOW I USE TO PREPARE REVIEW TO WRITE
PAPERS?
No Author & Year Country Type of Paper Paper Objective Paper
Summary

9. BENEFITS OF THIS TABLE:
 Easy to recall the papers
 Summarize the paper
 Easy to write not only review based papers but
also empirical or case study based papers.
 Handy and easy way of reviewing literature
 Can be updated at any time.

10. HOW TO REMOVE DEFICIENCIES IN A
MANUSCRIPT?
Source: McKercher, B., Law, R., Weber, K., Song, H., & Hsu, C. (2007). Why referees
reject manuscripts. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 31(4), 455-470.

11. PRIORITIES TO FOCUS BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR DRAFT
FOR PUBLICATION:
Do your homework properly
 Find out if journal is matching to the theme
of your article.
 Go through previous publications
 How can your paper contribute to the
journal

12.  Title, Abstract, and Keywords
 Title should be straight, accurate, and informative
 Title should be often used by Google search engine: For
example: Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric
Analysis, Structural Equation Modelling, AHP-TOPSIS,
ISM
 Abstract is the first thing an editor or reviewer goes through,
so it should be informative, straight forward, and conclusive.
 Abstract must describe the work done in the article.
 Keywords should be often used by Google search engine.
 Keywords should be not within the range of 5-10.

13.  Writing a manuscript/ research paper or a case study
 Draft should be clear, concise, informative and novice.
 If English is not the first language then use editing or
proof reading services.
 Manuscript should be error free as no grammar or verb
mistakes should occur.
 Before submitting check for plagiarism
 Follow the journal style before submitting to the journal.

14. HOW TO INCREASE THE IMPACT OF YOUR
RESEARCH WORK?
 Select an attractive and informative title
 Present your work in relevant academic
conferences
 Highlight your published work through social media
platforms used in academic like PubMet, LinkedIn,
Research Gate, etc
 Try to work in collaboration with other authors to
increase your research impact.
 Focus on rapidly increasing journals of your area
 Use blogs as a way of presenting your work.

15. ENDNOTE
 Writing is all about your interests and your expectations. The
more you expect from yourself, the better you try to learn
and train yourself.
 There is no shame in looking for help.
 Knowledge increases when shared so share your ideas or
involve in interdisciplinary research works.
 Look for projects or freelance assignments to improve your
writing skills.
 Never copy someone else’s work.
 Try to be original, creative and innovative.

16. ABOUT ME
I am an academician, trainer, researcher, and a blog writer. I
believe that if something is happening with us then there
must be a reason behind it so don’t worry. Just do your
Karma and let the things take their place on your own.
For further queries you can drop me a mail:
reach2minisha@gmail.com,
minishaguptaqc@gmail.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Q-IBL34AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-minisha-gupta-0a74a532/
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Minisha_Gupta