Do...do teach me how to do this "writing papers" thing. I'm supposed to produce a complete draft of one in a couple of weeks and it's terribly difficult for a novice like myself.
I haven't actually started grad school yet, but my prof decided that we were going to publish the results from my undergrad thesis. (Though we didn't actually cover writing full-length papers in research skills class either. We did more on presentation skills, which I think was pretty useful.)
Sounds so far like what I'm doing! I just wrote the second half of methodology and have the beginnings of results. (The first half of the methodology I think I'll just copy over from my thesis with some minor adjustments.) Indeed, I think the most daunting part is figuring out the purpose of the paper. I suspect that I have enough material from my project to make a decently-long one, but my prof keeps going on about maybe doing the paper as a comparison thing with his earlier work. I personally think those could be two separate things. I guess he's taking a PI role in the authorship so I have to write the majority of it :D
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Sounds so far like what I'm doing! I just wrote the second half of methodology and have the beginnings of results. (The first half of the methodology I think I'll just copy over from my thesis with some minor adjustments.) Indeed, I think the most daunting part is figuring out the purpose of the paper. I suspect that I have enough material from my project to make a decently-long one, but my prof keeps going on about maybe doing the paper as a comparison thing with his earlier work. I personally think those could be two separate things. I guess he's taking a PI role in the authorship so I have to write the majority of it :D
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