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Getting to Grips with Writing
How did you feel when your supervisor first asked you to draft a piece of writing, whether it was a journal article or perhaps your thesis itself? Excited or terrified? Was it any different the next time and the next? … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science
Tagged co-author, communication, Lisa Emerson, thesis
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The Numbers Game
If you are the only boy in a ballet class or the only girl studying physics, it can feel uncomfortable. However much what you’re doing may be your passion, it may feel awkward. Quite likely you will adopt some adaptive … Continue reading
Posted in Equality
Tagged communication, conference speakers, minority
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Social Scientist for the Day?
This week I attended what was probably my first serious social sciences/STS (variously Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society) conference in my life. I was only able to attend the first day and I came away not … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, communication, journalism, social science
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Red Ink, Green Ink
Exam marking being much on my mind, as discussed in the last post, I was thinking about the way we annotate the scripts as we mark. The practice I am familiar with (although I have no idea how standard this … Continue reading
How Do You Know How to Write a Thesis?
I wrote my PhD thesis so long ago it was typed for me by someone else based on my handwritten chapters; the diagrams were drawn laboriously and messily by me with a pen, ink and a fair number of smudges; … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged communication, examiners, PhD thesis, viva
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