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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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After teaching Scientific Writing for 5 years and being a freelance editor since several months ago, I’ve noticed some common minor mistakes. In this post, I list the mistakes I see most often and provide some tips for avoiding them in your writing.
Read MoreA year ago, I signed a contract to write a book for the American Chemical Society. The book is now in production and is set to publish in July!
Read MoreCheck out some of my writing recently published by Massive Science and Chemical & Engineering News!
Read MoreSomething 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 MoreObtaining astronomical data with a telescope takes much longer than several hours actually using the instrument. Rather, the process takes months starting with a telescope proposal that provides both scientific justification for the project and technical justification for the instruments requested. Here’s a look into what this process looks like, from writing the proposal itself to the review process, using my recent Green Bank Telescope observations to provide some examples.
Read MoreProposal writing, teaching, and passing candidacy (!!!). These are the highlights from my seventh term of graduate school.
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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