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SUMMARY:Scientific Writing: Deliberate practice makes you better - Prof. G
 regory S. Patience\, Polytechnique Montréal
DTSTART:20180824T090000Z
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CONTACT:Vanessa Blake
DESCRIPTION:Research is only half the work\; it is incomplete until a jour
 nal publishes the results. Copy editors are the first hurdle in the public
 ation process and check that manuscripts are suitable for the journal and 
 respect the format. Editors\, the second hurdle\, review abstracts\, concl
 usions\, and references. Reviewers\, the third hurdle\, devote more time t
 o validate the hypotheses\, results\, and interpretation.  Rejection rates
  across journals are increasing and many publish fewer than one out of fiv
 e submissions.  Writing well reduces rejection rates but\, more importantl
 y\, it improves the message and so readers are more likely  to read and ci
 te the work.  In this workshop we review the minutiae of writing clearly a
 nd discuss: Aristotelian means of persuasion\, writing style\, and metadis
 course.  We apply Occam's razor to text and recommend replacing 007 with e
 xplicit agents.
LOCATION:Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, West Cambr
 idge Site\, LT1
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