The RIGHT way to WRITE: Secrets of research writing!

Write as much as possible and write everything down. Note down ideas to develop later, even just fragments of text, and never throw anything away.

I recently received a question from a colleague: ‘What sorts of writing habits do successful researchers have?’

This is a very good question, with no straightforward basic ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer. Successful researchers come in all shapes and sizes, of course; the first question to ask is ‘what makes a successful researcher?’ ‘how do we measure succes…