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The 10 rules for excellent writing

Only 6 actually. But I enjoyed the read. That’s why my first rule for writers is that, as an aspiring writer, you should write every day Also applies of course to science papers. You will find yourself...

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10 writing tips for academic papers

I’m currently wrapping up a long review paper (>10k words) that should hopefully be published this September. As usual, as a non-native speaker, I ran into many common grammar and style mistakes....

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OS X text editors for academics

Most of our time, as academics, is spent writing on our computers. Papers, dissertation, grant applications, reviews, but also coding. The geek in me has been somewhat obsessed about finding the best...

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Writing academic papers in plain text with Markdown and Jupyter notebook

TL;DR My new workflow for writing academic papers involves Jupyter Notebook for data analysis and generating the figures, Markdown for writing the paper, and Pandoc for generating the final output....

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How I wrote my scientific book

TL;DR: I wrote a 600 pages, 150k words scientific book. Took me almost 3 years. Tools: 11’’MBA, LaTex, SublimeText, Jupyter notebook, Illustrator, coffee. I wrote 1k word per day for many months....

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