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The Professional Student is a blog about everything grad school from the application process to my experiences living as a grad student, being a parent in grad school, and researching the role of chemistry in the evolution of our universe.
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Something I’ve noticed over ten terms of teaching scientific writing is that scientists are usually never taught how to write figure captions. I pulled from my experiences, Write Like a Chemist, and the ACS Style Guide to put together some thoughts and guidelines for writing figure captions.
Read MoreTeaching, a final course, and a holiday in Europe. These are the highlights from my fifth term in grad school.
Read MoreThe Rosetta mission to comet 67P gave us some insights into cosmochemistry, but it also showed we have much to learn in the way of comets. For my final project in Cosmochemistry, I discussed the implications of Rosetta's observations of water, oxygen, and organics in 67P.
Read MoreWhether for a term paper or an academic journal article, peer review is an important part of the writing process.
Read MoreThere are many ways to reach out to other scientists, from journal articles to social media. Scientific perspectives are a medium somewhere in between.
Read MoreAs an undergraduate, I learned the hard way that I needed to relearn how to read. After reading several scientific journal articles front-to-back, word-by-word, I was bored out of my mind and found that I was unable to recall any of the information (I thought) I had just taken in.
Here's an overview of the mindset you should have when tackling just about any (but specifically scientific) type of journal article.
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