On May 27, 2021, Research Center for Human Centric Engineering (HUMIC RC) has held an online workshop entitled “Ideal Tricks for Writing Scientific Papers” by inviting Dr. eng. Faisal Budiman, S.T., M.Sc. (Lecturer of Electrical Engineering and Researcher IoT Center, Telkom University) as a speaker. This activity was guided by Mr. Rizka Reza Pahlevi, M.Kom., as a moderator, and the event was opened by Mr. Satria Mandala, Ph.D. director of HUMIC RC. This activity was attended by lecturers and students from institutions throughout Indonesia.

This activity is a knowledge sharing on tips for writing good scientific papers, with the topic “Write without Fear, Edit without Mercy”. Mr. Faisal gave some tips for writing scientific papers in this activity, including:

• Order of writing: methodology à results and analysis à introduction à conclusions à abstract & title.
• A paragraph has one main idea, STICK to the idea when writing.
• Grammar à We must know when to use dot, commas, semicolons, decimal separators, colons, capital letter, etc.
• Copy Paste = No, Copy and Develop = OK.
• Use THESAURUS, for better word selection.
• Use PHRASES, for better diction.
• Do Not Publish materials that has been published, UNLESS we have permission to republish it (or it is free-license).
• Stuck in writing à read more = write more

After Mr. Faisal finished his presentation, the event continued with a question and answer session and discussion with the participants until the end of the event. With this workshop, it is hoped that participants can better understand how to write a good scientific paper.