Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
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The Last Thing You Want to Be Doing in Your First Lines Is Explaining
When students are writing, the only audience they're writing to is the professor. The message we're trying to translate to the professor is, i got the material u you gave me. But first you need to convince them that they ought to read your paper and that they want to learn what you have to teach. That's ti dea of instability, i think, yes, definitelyand that covers our two points there. We got through that. But but it brings us right back too. Yes, some of em have seen some of mc nan's lectures on nn the web, and yes, they're brilliant. And as we spend many years as students training what ultimately are actually bad
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