Package for a newbie
These are some helpful web bases for fresh students to write their first scientific report/essay perfectly.
For searching In high school, searching and getting information from web results by Google is acceptable. However, in the scientific environment, especially in colleges/universities or higher, web source information seems unreliable and unapprovable. So, how can you search for qualified sources?
"Google Scholar" is the best way to search for quality articles/reviews. Everything you need to do is search in the correct keyword. For example, if you want to know about CRISPR-Cas9 and its application in agriculture, your keyword needs to include "CRISPR-Cas9" and "agriculture".
For accessing the information The majority of scientific papers are required to pay before reading. If your institute doesn't support you to access these papers (like mine), the only solution is "Scihub".
You can easily access the "Scihub" website by Google.
Then, you have to copy the name/DOI of the paper/book and search it in Scihub. Based on my experience, DOI would be more convenient and quick.
Finally, you can download and read it freely.
You can check out other free download websites are the "Libgen" and the "Z-Library".
For automatically citing reference "Mendeley" is my best choice for this task.
First, you need to download "Mendeley" both on your laptop/computer and in Extension Chrome.
Next, you use Chrome to search your desire paper, lick to the NCBI/Elsevier web that contains the information of your desire paper.
Then, you can automatically save the exact details of the article by Mendeley in Chrome.
Finally, you open "Mendeley" on your laptop/computer to cite the reference to your work on Word.
For more detail, you should read the manual of "Mendeley".
The main advantage of "Mendeley" is its multiple formats for you to choose from. In addition, you can easily change between each format setting without any errors in your work. It is pretty convenient and effortless.
For grammar and other problems As a non-native English student, "Grammarly" is my savior. If you have the school email, you can have a 40% sale off the premium account (around $7.2/month). It can be reduced more if you share your account with your friends.
Another problem you have to concern when writing your work is plagiarism. Grammarly also has the feature to check this for you automatically. However, the best way is that you write everything in your own words in the first place.
That is all, and I hope this post gets you well.