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academia papers writing

shared by Roger Chen on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • be ambitious.
  • Most papers should make a single point.
  • How is your contribution different from what has been said a thousand times before?
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  • A sexy start: tell the reader early why he should read your paper. Don’t summarize, sell! A good abstract answers the question why should I read this paper?,
  • 5. What a good paper should not contain Weak unnecessary results: if you derived ten theorems but only one is necessary, throw the rest of them in your drawers. I do not want to know about useless results! Technical details: technical papers made of several small ideas are usually not interesting.
Roger Chen

How to Make Your Blog Posts More Readable | Blogging Tips from Blogsessive - 0 views

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shared by Roger Chen on 08 May 08 - Cached
  • Write a short introductory paragraph and tell me exactly what I’m about to read.
  • Make use of paragraphs
  • Make use of paragraphs and line breaks. Huge blocks of text are very hard to scan
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  • Whenever you talk about numbers and statistics, use graphics.
  • Give me more things to read. In your posts, sometimes you mention things that are related to the topic, but you don’t want to develop more. Link them to a place where I can read more about them,
  • Whenever you link to another blog post or website, use strong, descriptive text anchors.
  • Create blog post sections and use subheadings so that I can jump between paragraphs of interest.
Roger Chen

Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? - Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter - 0 views

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career

shared by Roger Chen on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Break your responsibilities into categories
  • Ask yourself what percentage of your time you should be spending in each category
  • Check for alignment with your superiors and colleagues
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  • Managing your time
  • Audit your time.
  • Practice time-boxing.
  • Pay attention to the areas where you’re weakest.
  • Roger Chen on 24 Apr 08
     
    Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource, few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how the priorities they say are most important jibe with the way they actually spend their time. "Those we label natural born leaders know how to leverage their time," writes Warren Blank in The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders (Amacom, 2001). For those in whom this talent is not innate, here's how to do it.
Roger Chen

How to Write a Scientific Paper - 0 views

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academia papers writing

shared by Roger Chen on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 25 Jun 08
     
    Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, pg. 8.
Roger Chen

Teens use :-), LOL in school writing - Education- msnbc.com - 0 views

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internetwatch

shared by Roger Chen on 01 May 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 01 May 08
     
    The telephone-based survey of 700 U.S. residents ages 12 to 17 and their parents was conducted Sept. 19 to Nov. 16 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Roger Chen

科学网-致青年学者--如何撰写学术论文 - 0 views

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academia writing

shared by Roger Chen on 11 May 08 - Cached
  • 记住，你有三个相互独立的、完全不同的但是同等重要的任务需要完成：   1.     想出个好主意，做好分析、实验和验证。 2.     设计一份能给听众留下深刻印象、把你的想法“推销”出去的PPT。 3.     撰写一篇能吸引别人阅读和引用的高质量论文，在极少数情况下，甚至是经得起时间考验的论文。
  • 大多数论文作者在做PPT或者写论文的时候，常常倾向于把自己的意识流记录下来，这完全是以自我为中心的。但是，如果要想成功地完成第二、第三项任务，就必须坚持以听众和读者为中心，
  • 总的说来，有三类人会读你的论文
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  • 第一类读者只想了解一下这篇论文是不是对他有用，这时候论文摘要就很重要。
  • 第二类读者，他们只对该论文的中心论点或者/和论文的历史有兴趣，而对里面的细枝末节可能没什么兴趣，这类读者愿意花些时间读文章的一两段概述。
  • 第三类读者，对整篇文章的每个细节都感兴趣
  • 关键是要记住“多替别人着想”这个原则。
  • 1．    概述部分不要夸大其辞，过于吹嘘正文的内容。这是很糟糕的形式，你早晚会后悔的。 2．    恰当地指出他人的贡献和成就，不要太吝啬了。 3．    不要把一篇论文写成大同小异的三篇论文，你可以用一份好的PPT做几次演讲，但是把本质上是一篇的论文发表几次是很糟糕的事情。 4．    不要一稿多投，以为这样就可以增加接收的可能性。这是很不道德的，浪费了评审人的宝贵时间，要知道大家的时间都非常紧张。编辑们对此恨之入骨。不幸的是，至少在我熟悉的那些领域，中国作者因为这种事情在国际上已经声名狼藉了。
Roger Chen

How to Maximize Citations « Apperceptual - 0 views

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academia papers writing

shared by Roger Chen on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Why should we want our papers to be highly cited? I assume here that we want our work to influence other researchers, and that citation count is a reasonable estimate of influence.
  • Roger Chen on 25 Jun 08
     
    Why should we want our papers to be highly cited? I assume here that we want our work to influence other researchers, and that citation count is a reasonable estimate of influence.
Roger Chen

Useful Stock Phrases for Your Business Emails - 0 views

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writing

shared by Roger Chen on 30 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 30 Jun 08
     
    Very useful collection of "phrases" :-)
Roger Chen

Our need for real-time information consumption is pointless « Alexander van E... - 0 views

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InternetWatch web2.0

shared by Roger Chen on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • We write blogs, create news, produce content, act as journalists, and there are plenty of platforms that allow us to spread our message
  • We are eager to share personal information, wishes, needs, thoughts, ideas, emotions, friends, locations. To find information we use Google, news sites, rss feeds, aggregators, aggregators that aggregate aggregators, news feeds, tweets, social networks.
  • There are no short cuts to knowledge, no matter how much processing power and storage capacity we throw at it.
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  • As transaction costs to produce, distribute and consume information drop to zero the question arises if the information value itself drops to zero too?
  • If I ask you to remember the last conversation you had that made you laugh or cry, chances are pretty high that this conversation was a real-life one, not an online one.
  • It is for that reason I tend to be rather skeptical of our current online efforts to get information to us via search, sites, aggregators, rss, social networks, soon all in in real-time.
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