Advice posts on writing
Students: How to email to your Professor, employer, and professional peers
A third of student emails make me cringe. Not from scorn (well, maybe a little scorn) but mainly sympathy. Distressing sympathy. Here are 12 pieces
Please stop using “novel” and “unique” in your abstract
I love this. Three researchers picked 20 top biomedical journals and searched all titles and abstracts since 1975 for positive, negative, neutral, and random words.
Henry Miller’s writing tips
Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’ Don’t be nervous.
How to write like a Mad Man
Advice from David Ogilvy, the advertising executive and inspiration for the “Mad Men” of TV fame. The better you write, the higher you go in
How to write an essay
The worst essay I ever read (from a grad student at an unnamed Ivy college) sought to explain why China developed after the West. The
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