Damn. Well, I guess I better hurry up and write and publish a paper on the Ternary Neural Network research that I've been doing (part-time) for the last several months, before it all gets scooped.
Modify your schedule, sure but do not rush it (just to beat the other folks). The first paper on any given topic may garner some 15 minutes of fame but the well-researched, boring paper is one oft-cited. Even if it isn't the first on its topic.
Be thorough and by golly, include some useful visuals! Even bad pictures and low-effort charts and graphs can vastly improve the grokability of a research paper.
Also, request assistance! Are you terrible at making charts and graphs? Ask someone to help you! For the low, low price of adding their name to the paper I'm 100% certain you can borrow an expert's time to add some dapper displays of useful information along with drastic wording and layout improvements.
The amount of papers in the wild that are just walls of jargon with completely useless, nearly-impossible-to-read charts and graphs is seemingly limitless.
Refreshing is the paper that a non-expert can read and understand! You don't have to ELI5 but well-written text and explanations are loved by all. The individual using it to gain actual knowledge will grok it from skimming and looking at the data anyway so you might as well take the time to explain some of the more complicated aspects like it's going to be read by a freshman STEM major (no need to go further back in education than that).
If you need help with grammar just paste a portion of your text into some LLM (even the small, locally-run models) and they usually do a pretty good job at finding and fixing such mistakes.
