1. Principles of Scientific Writing: Coherence; Scholarly publishing, Writing cultures, Reasons and strategies for publishing research

2. Cohesion: Grammatical & Lexical Cohesion, Framing, Parallel Construction and Sequential Construction

3. Continuity: Eliminating Discontinuities and Logical Gaps, Providing Transition, Depth and Emphasis & Introducing Variety

4. Conciseness: Key conciseness strategies, Removing wordiness, Rephrasing awkward sentences & Fixing sentence fragments

5. Clarity: Avoiding Ambiguity, Multiple negatives & Jargon, Defining the unfamiliar, Striving for Simplicity, Placing dependent clauses in sentences

6. Precision: Word choice, Phrasing, Field-specific terms and conventions, Nomenclature

7. Accuracy: Semantic (Being forthright, Maintaining an objective point of view) and Stylistic (Maintaining formal tone, Avoiding overstatements)

8. Grammatical accuracy: Maintaining verb accuracy, Using sequences of tenses, Avoiding faulty comparisons

9. Rhetorical accuracy: Adhering to IMRAD structure, Avoiding reasoning errors, Presenting conclusions (rather than data from references) & Citing primary sources

10. The scientific paper: Catchy titles with active clauses, Effective Abstracts, Structured Introductions, Guidelines for M&M, Storyline in Results, Developed Discussions

11. Editing and proofreading: Drafting, Revising, Reverse outlining, Editing techniques, Developmental editing reports

12. Publication Ethics: Authorship, Plagiarism & Scientific misconduct