Title: Support tools to assist scientific writing: assessment of key features to construct a system for production engineering

Authors: Ralf Landim Reith; José Dutra De Oliveira Neto; Anderson De Andrade Santos

Addresses: São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo (USP), 400 Trabalhador Sãocarlense Avenue, ZIP 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil ' São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo (USP), 400 Trabalhador Sãocarlense Avenue, ZIP 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil ' São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo (USP), 400 Trabalhador Sãocarlense Avenue, ZIP 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

Abstract: Scientific articles are the most frequently used channels for the dissemination of research results by thousands of researchers around the world. However, writing scientific papers is not an easy task, even for an experienced writer. There are several tools designed to assist in this important step, yet many knowledge areas require customised tools. This work presents the assessment of some of these tools in order to identify the type of support offered and the needs reported by the users, and then propose the key features desired in a tool suited for production engineering. The results are shown in a comparative table that lists the tools that were studied with the identified features, which enabled determining the main aspects for building a tool that can help researchers write papers related to production engineering.

Keywords: scientific writing; support tools; scientific articles; production engineering; research dissemination.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2017.082090

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2017 Vol.12 No.3, pp.353 - 362

Received: 07 Jan 2015
Accepted: 11 Jan 2015
Published online: 07 Feb 2017 *

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