Book excerpt: Current day researchers are at cross roads. The entire publishing culture and scenario has undergone a sea change. Author is now confronted with newer tools that aid their article generation and publication. The arrival of digital era has made a quantum difference to the scientific publication scenario. The sheer number of publications and the publishers have multiplied rather drastically. The present day author hence should have the following skill set in order to publish good scientific papers. 1. Adept at handling word processors. 2. Comfortable with browser usage and search engine usage. 3. Should be familiar with LATEX language and allied tools. 4. Digital publishing brings with it a certain amount of automation and hence the user should be comfortable with the auto publishing process. This book is intended for those aspiring scientific writers, which ever format of writing they choose to showcase their wares. Separate chapters have been included to hand hold the budding author throughout their writing journey. Some of the chapters that would be of immense use this book has included: 1. Thesis writing 2. Dissertation writing 3. Scholarly writing 4. Preparing project reports for grants Chapters have been organised in such a way that each one of them can be read in isolation. Hope this book would be of help to budding authors and researchers