COMMUNICATION IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Department of Biology
CHECKLIST - MATERIALS & METHODS
_____ Written in third person and past tense
_____ Concise but complete
_____ Accurately described what was done, without giving instruction
_____ Statistics and quantitative methods explained
_____ Literature cited (if appropriate)
_____ Well-constructed paragraphs, no writing errors, etc. (see Recipe for Pretty Good Scientific Writing)
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