the one with five steps to academic glory or at least getting things done
Academia is a scary thing. You can go from being all "omg I have to talk infront of people for three minutes? That's FOREVER" in undergraduate years to being all "omg I can ONLY talk for fifteen minutes? That's NO TIME AT ALL" as a postgrad. Needless to say, at the moment I am trying desperately to figure out how to explain my field, introduce my PhD topic and be generally informative and interesting in a mere 15 minutes. That's no more than 1875 words, assuming I don't play any musical examples. Argh. It is honestly like trying to write a novel on a postcard. I have to leave so much out, but put so much in.
Sadly, I did voluntarily choose to do this talk. So I have no one to blame but myself.
Steps To Writing A Paper:
1. Caffinate.
2. Get all the "omg I cannot do this", "man this is stupid", "why did I decide to do this in the first place" thoughts out of your head.
3. Just write. If it's dodgy you can go back later and fix it.
4. Unless you are 80 years old and boring as hell, try not to write like that. Also don't write like a moron, so no slang or hip lingo. Academic speaking is the balance of not being too pretentious and not sounding too ordinary.
5. Caffinate.
6. Don't sit around writing journal entries about how to do a conference paper.
Next time! How To Dress For a Conference and Not Look Stupid (Or Like An Eighty Year Old).
Sadly, I did voluntarily choose to do this talk. So I have no one to blame but myself.
Steps To Writing A Paper:
1. Caffinate.
2. Get all the "omg I cannot do this", "man this is stupid", "why did I decide to do this in the first place" thoughts out of your head.
3. Just write. If it's dodgy you can go back later and fix it.
4. Unless you are 80 years old and boring as hell, try not to write like that. Also don't write like a moron, so no slang or hip lingo. Academic speaking is the balance of not being too pretentious and not sounding too ordinary.
5. Caffinate.
6. Don't sit around writing journal entries about how to do a conference paper.
Next time! How To Dress For a Conference and Not Look Stupid (Or Like An Eighty Year Old).