1. ANDY STAPLETON: How to use ChatGPT and Claude effectively.
2. WRITE SOON! Watch this inspiring video with a lecture from Professor Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research. Seven simple suggestions: don’t wait – write, identify your key idea, tell a story, nail your contributions, put related work at the end, put your readers first, listen to your readers.
3. George Whitesides, a chemistry professor at Cambridge, US, answers 7 questions about writing a paper:
- What advice to give to someone who is authoring an article?
- If you start writing the article at the same time you start your research, is there a danger you will bias your results?
- How do your students handle your approach of writing while you research?
- How many drafts does each paper undergo? Do your paper undergo an internal review?
- How do new technologies help scientists communicate their work?
- Do authors need to be thinking of marketing their articles?
- How concerned should I be about the title and abstract of my paper?
4. ZOMBIE NOUNS Helen Sword gives you a lesson on Zombie Nouns. Beware!
5. THE PASSIVE VOICE: WHEN & WHY
From the Writing Center University of Colorado
6. Kristin Sainani (Writing in the Sciences; Coursera) about the Methods Section.
7. Kristin Sainani (Writing in the Sciences; Coursera) about tables and figures.
8. Kristin Sainani (Writing in the Sciences; Coursera) about writing the Results section.