Being a PhD researcher, it is helpful to know about different types of manuscript writing. The more you will know, the better you can prepare your manuscript with different perspective. Though you may feel that there are a large number of articles published online and different types of manuscripts may confuse you. So, when you are writing about it, you must know the different types of manuscript writing so that you can follow that format for writing.
Here are the types of manuscript writing:
Original Research
Rapid Communications
Review Articles
Case Studies
Methodologies
Ahead, we will explain all these kinds so that you get a clear idea before you start your manuscript writing.
Original Research
This is the most common and popular type of journal writing and is also known as original article, research article, or article, based on what is your journal type. The Original Research format is helpful in different types of studies including writing a full introduction, methods, result, and discussion section.
Rapid Communications
Rapid communication help editors find an interesting paper that would interest many researchers and may help them stimulate research in the field. These rapid communications are published after the submission of a journal so that the format will help the researcher to get quicker results. The format usually has strict length limits so that no researcher can include any additional experimental detail until the original manuscript is written.
This type of manuscript may also be referred to as a Short report or Letter.
Review Articles
Review Articles helps in offering a complete summary of research on a certain topic and its vision on how it is affecting our state. This type of manuscript is often written by a leader who is an expert in their field of study.
The review articles are often widely read by people/researchers especially those who are looking for a full introduction to a field.
TIP: If you want to write a review but not invited by journal then be sure to check the website to avoid facing unsolicited Reviews. Also, it is clever at your end to write an enquiry letter to the journal editor beforehand to find out whether the reviews are commissioned or not.
Methodologies or Methods
These articles are used or written to experiment with new methods, test, or procedure to present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method describes a completely new or better version of an existing method that also demonstrates what is currently available.
Case Studies
These articles help us in knowing about our report’s instances of interesting phenomena. A study let other researchers know about the possibility of a certain topic and what had happened in a similar situation in past.
A case study is often helpful in medicine to report and know about the reality of the previously occurred situation.