Checklist For Writing a Scientific Review

Choosing the wrong papers and starting without a hypothesis can stall the review writing process before you’ve even put pen to paper.

This step-by-step to-do list, based on Gorana Jendrišek’s session on writing scientific reviews, walks you through all five phases of the process so you always know what to do next.

Download now to:

• Know where to start — define your narrative, protagonist, and conflict before reading a single paper
• Select and rank papers using three filters that keep your reading focused and your argument coherent
• Frame a hypothesis that reviewers can’t dismiss, and avoid the three traps that make claims unpublishable
• Take notes you can actually write from using four rules that prevent writing chaos
• Work through the writing, figures, and finishing touches in the right order, with nothing missed