Investigator Liesl Burger writes:
E. Robert Schulman’s “How To Write A Scientific Paper” (published in the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 2, no. 5, 1996) is pretty darn funny, but funnier still is that it is cited in a published paper:
“How to Write a Scientific Paper,” by Shukla Satish (Editor / Chairman, Indian Journal of Surgery, Retd. Prof. and Head of Surgery, M.G.M. Medical College and M.Y. and Associated Hospital, Indore, India), Indian Journal of Surgery, vol. 69, no. 2, 2007, pp. 43-46.
See reference #4:
UPDATE: Eric Schulman has some thoughts about this.
NOTE: This area of expertise was extended, albeit sideways, by Kaj Sand-Jensen’s recently published study “How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature.”