Success and Creativity in Scientific Research

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Writing for Fun, Profit and Career Advancement

Long-term success in a career focused on research is not possible without being able to express yourself clearly in writing. Completing a PhD requires writing a thesis that communicates the outcomes of years of hard work and thinking. Writing papers that impress reviewers, journal editors and ultimately your professional peers is vital for sharing your work with the technical community. Writing proposals that convey the excitement of your ideas is crucial for sustaining any research group and allowing you to explore your next set of groundbreaking ideas. In a job interview, no one would volunteer that they were overflowing with good ideas but were terrible at technical writing. Despite the critical ...