Topics #

• Plagiarism

Books on writing #

Best books #

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White - don't stop at this book.
• Line by Line by Claire Kehrwald Cook - a lot of good editing examples
• The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective by George Gopen - probably different from most other writing books. unique insights.
  • Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective by George Gopen
• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia - importance of commitment.
• The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker

Others #

• On writing well by William Zinsser
• Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker (Author) and Pamela Richards
• Business Notes: Writing Personal Notes That Build Professional Relationships

Tools #

• TeX
• writer's diet test by Helen Sword
  • You should be able to summarize a paragraph into a single sentence.
  • How many active, vivid verbs?
  • How many waste words (it, this, that, there, ...)?
  • How many concrete nouns and how many abstract nouns?
  • Assume your audiences: An aspirational leader, a critical friend, a critical friend in other field, a young & bright undergraduate student, "uncle Bob".
  • Is the title catchy, concrete, and useful?
  • Do you have catchy opening paragraph?
  • What story am I telling?
  • Do I have plenty of examples?
  • Citations are relevant and useful?
  • How many jargons do I use?
• http://www.grammarly.com/ - Grammar/plagiarism checker
• http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/ - 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."
• Plain Text, Papers, Pandoc

Articles on Academic writing #

• The Science of Scientific Writing by George D. Gopen & Judith A. Swan

• The University of Manchester:Academic Phrasebank

• 바죠:How to write a paper
• Advice on Research and Writing - "A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for computer scientists)."
• http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/
• plog comp. biol.:Philip E. Bourne:Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
  • extrad:논문을 출판 시키기 위한 10가지 규칙
  • vici:Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
• hongsup:논문 어떻게 써야 할까
• How to write a great research paper
• nature:Publications: Publish like a pro
• nature:Publishing: A helping hand
• A guide to ethical writing by Miguel Roig
• Writing a technical paper by Michael Ernst
• Nature:Turbocharge your writing today
• How to write consistently boring scientific literature by Kaj Sand-Jensen
• Abstract Science
• The Grammar According to West by Douglas B. West

• A Formula for Academic Papers: Title and Abstract

  • A Formula for Academic Papers: Authors

• Nature physics: Elements of style

• Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math
• Ten Simple (Empirical) Rules for Writing Science
• Ten simple rules for structuring papers
• Writing a scientific paper, step by painful step by Kevin Lafferty

Lectures and talks about writing #

• How to Write a Great Research Paper

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