A big part of my advice to students on #scientificwriting is that less is more.
Don’t open unnecessary cans of worms! Better to leave it out entirely than to gesture at it vaguely but not take the time to cover it thoroughly. And you simply can’t include EVERYTHING.
It shouldn’t be a log of everything you have read or, worse!, a flex to prove how widely read you are. It’s great to think broadly about connections to your research, but focused writing will be more clear and compelling.
This is Mur 
@girls_can
Really sad about the situation at my university where all students in bachelors degree have projects each year for which they have to compulsorily publish a research paper. This whole mess results in students writing a paper just for the sake of not failing and white papers of very very poor quality getting out 
@mur2501 I’ve never heard of any program or even a research grant with a requirement to actually publish. Not even a PhD student must have published to graduate! Because science can be high risk and not all research works out or ends up publishable, not to mention the role of chance in the pace and ultimate fate of peer review. That seems a really unrealistic bar for undergrads to me! My grants require some # of manuscripts for submission to a peer reviewed journal, but not full publication
@girls_can
Well I am in India, and alot of Indian Institutes do have very unrealistic expectation.
Mumbai University's reasoning in doing this stuff was 'No one in India going into research and academics 
This solution will ENCOURAGE students to go into research 
'
Well the result is as I said previously... 
@girls_can
This really makes me sad cause I wanted to go into research when I was in school 
Now going that way looks the most bad decision 
@mur2501 wow. I can see that rather than encourage students to pursue high stakes research, this approach would favour low risk/low reward research and incentivize p-hacking behaviour because the pressure to publish is so intense.
@girls_can
Yeah actually that's how the whole system has become here.
I am in third year of computer science and most of my classmates can hardly do any programming 
Still they all have +9 out of 10 pointers(Grades) 
@girls_can Yes, absolutely.👍 Brevity and simple language. Be aware of culture-specific idioms.