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Beom Sun Chung; Jeong Houn Son; Min Suk Chung

doi:10.6087/kcse.92

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Science Cartoon Article succeeded by presentation: Beom Sun Chung¹, Jeong Houn Son^2,3, Min Suk Chung¹; Science Editing 2017;4(1):48-51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.92
Published online: February 20, 2017

¹Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

²Department of French, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

³Department of Cultural Contents, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

Correspondence to Min Suk Chung dissect@ajou.ac.kr

• Received: October 17, 2016 • Accepted: January 31, 2017

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Many scientists work in the following order: first, they write an abstract for a conference. Second, they make slides for the conference. Third, they memorize the manuscript for the conference. And finally, they write the article for a journal. If they start with the easiest thing (the abstract) first, they will suffer at every step. If they write the article first, the rest will be a piece of cake.

Writing an article first and performing the experiment later is possibly a good way of doing research. By writing the article first, you can study the works of references better, make the hypotheses better, and set up the experiment plans better. Moreover, you can reduce the risk of making mistakes and increase the possibilities of getting the important results when you conduct the experiment. Also, if the result is different than expected, you can revise the article promptly.

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