Writing Tips: Overcoming Writer’s Block
Many who write regularly know what it’s like to be at a loss for words. Some days we can churn out ten pages and others we struggle to write ten sentences. Writing is hard, which is why it is...
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In our last post we wrote about how to overcome writer’s block and the fear of writing. So now you’re on a schedule, and you’re ready to tackle this “writing thing.” You wake up, coffee and computer...
View ArticleGetting Organized (and Staying that Way)
Up to this point, I’m sure most of you are saying, “That’s great, but what about YOUR lab? What do YOU do?” Following the advice in the book How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia (see our blog entry about...
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Writing Tips: How We Edit
This is an example of our edits. The red marks are directly edits and the blue are high level comments. In our last writing post, we talked about how our group of a dozen undergrads, four PhDs and...
View ArticleWriting Tips: Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to “introduce” you to our introduction style. Writing the introduction is the most daunting part of the paper writing process, especially for students who are not...
View ArticleWriting Tips: Methods Overview
What are the interesting computational ideas underlying a new computational method? What are the intuitions behind the method? How is the method related to other methods? These are the key question...
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Writing Tips: Results Subsections
The purpose of a Results section is to present, without interpretation, the key results of your research. Your paper does not need to include every result you obtained during your experiments. Results...
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Writing Tips: Why we publish Methods Papers
by Eleazar Eskin Computational genomics is a field where many diverse academic groups collaborate, each bringing to a project their own distinct academic cultures. In particular, each academic...
View ArticleWriting Tips: An Authorship Policy that Maximizes Collaboration
(This post is authored by Eleazar Eskin.) Assigning authorship and determining the order of authors on scientific papers is an issue that every research lab deals with. Authorship ranking can be a...
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Writing Tips: Improving Clarity on the Sentence Level
(This post is authored by Lana Martin.) Clarity is especially important when writing scientific methods papers, proposal, and reports. Journal referees and grant reviewers typically read many...
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Writing Tips: Improving Clarity on the Sentence Level
(This post is authored by Lana Martin.) Clarity is especially important when writing scientific methods papers, proposal, and reports. Journal referees and grant reviewers typically read many...
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