Diagrams. Lots and lots of diagrams. But I hear you. I can't even read technical stuff these days without trying to fall asleep. Even technical emails, I find my attention wandering. But honestly I don't know your field, but if you can achieve something that utilizes the english language in its correct form, you should be head-and-tails above a lot of the other grad students, right? And maybe challenge yourself. Write one section each day and see how many double entendres you can fit in. Or how convoluted you can make a sentence. As writing exercises of course. ;)
Alternately, you could continue your seat-of-the-pants method and hope it turns out all right.
Surface studies software -- the group I'm working in needed some ten-thousand dollar image analysis stuff that no one was willing to shell out for, so I wrote the code for them. And that part of it was fun and reminiscent of when I actually was a grad student, but I forgot about the agonizing 'write a paper' end of it. Especially because they've given me a format that I'm required to fit based on the fact that everyone else in the fellowship program is doing experimental work and I'm the only one doing coding stuff. Somehow, they've managed to making writing lesson plans more appealing than writing research papers, and I'm not sure how the hell they managed it, because I'd rather be locked up in a room full of teachers who've just been told that the free food for the meeting had to be thrown out than write this damn paper
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Alternately, you could continue your seat-of-the-pants method and hope it turns out all right.
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