How Not To Write An Interesting Essay

Kaj Sand-Jensen is a professor of aquatic biology who has identified ten characteristics that make a paper dull and uninteresting. Here is a link to his original text.

In short, here are his ten points:

1. Avoid focus
2. Avoid originality and personality
3. Make it really long
4. Remove any potential implications of the work
5. Leave out illustrations, especially good ones
6. Omit necessary steps of reasoning
7. Use as many acronyms, abbreviations and technical terms as possible
8. Don't be amusing or creative in language
9. Focus only on statistics
10. Support every statement with a reference (or more than one)

Enjoy!