@satrevik Both! I write a first abstract outlining the questions I want to answer, with placeholders for results (e.g. "the analysis [supported | did not support] our hypothesis"), then go back and rewrite it when everything else is finished.
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Some people seem to agree, but I'm wondering what the proportions are. Which camp are you in?
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I was trained to write the Abstract last when preparing an academic paper: finish up the paper first and then summarize it. Over the years I've reversed this: I now write the Abstract as early as possible. This forces me to focus on a few key points, and gives structure to the rest of the writing process.
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Having finally found the right combination of time and focus to get back to manuscript updates and revisions, I feel subtle satisfaction and fulfillment. Some co-authors, who have otherwise done great job in the lab and in the manuscript they delicately deviate from co-authorship towards „reviewership” are mildly irritating, but not sufficient enough to taint the net good feeling of this moment.
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Blog post on writing today: Editing isn’t one giant fix-everything move. Different kinds of revision need different kinds of attention; trying to do it all at once is a great way to freeze. Choose your horizon!
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Einsatz von #künstlicherIntelligenz bei wissenschaftlichen Publikationen? - Das stellt Forschende vor neue ethische Herausforderungen und birgt Risiken. Von der Literaturrecherche bis zum fertigen Paper können wissenschaftliche Schreibprozesse jedoch auch erleichtert werden. Ein Team aus Kroatien hat Leitlinien für einen intelligenten und verantwortungsvollen Umgang erarbeitet. Der Artikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3416.php
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I'm about to return De Los Reyes's Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research--return it with an Aarrgh. I like the guy's thinking; I buy his thesis. However, I'm not going to plow through the rest of the book, nor take his course at UMd. He intends this for a text, but he writes it as though it were a dissertation or a journal paper. Sentences have so many references embedded in parentheses. More than once I've had to track back to find the beginning of the sentence. Scare quotes: even the American Psychological Association doesn't expect him to say " . . .'cherry-picking' results . . . . "; To used scare quotes around the same word multiple times, even if used in a non-ordinary way, is a favor to no reader. Pity: he has something to say. If I were convinced he offered an approach I would value, I'd keep slogging. As it is, I'll save my dry eyeballs for other tasks. I'm disappointed in Oxford University Press for not having cleaned up the overuse of scare quotes, and for their sometimes-unfortunate placement of figures relative to the text discussing them.
Micro behaviours in everyday contexts SCREAM back at me as colonial ... too many, here's one:
when teaching #AcademicWriting to 'international' students in UK universities, tangible contempt and impatience reigned when students' Word docs defaulted from right to left.
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I've already moved on a bit from this work, which I did through last year. My thinking has too: what I need to write down already feels like old news to me because I've re-imagined it in a different formal framework that has better properties. This is such a trap and something my PhD advisor warned his students (me) to be wary of yet I'm still enthusiastically diving headfirst into it.
I have to confess that another dimension of this is the piss poor state of publishing. I find APCs deeply offensive and don't want to face them, but I don't intend to sign away copyright to a predatory publisher either. Something like 12 of my papers are in the libgen database and I'm not keen to stuff a 13th into the blender (then again, good luck trying to make sense of this one with an LLM lol). As a graduate student I found publishing a challenging but exciting opportunity to communicate with peers. Now I find it to be an onerous chore of navigating smarmy vampiric middlemen to get at the valuable things they unjustly control (distribution channels mainly). I feel compelled to publish this one in conventional-ish channels because it's reporting on grant-funded work and I think it merits, and I'd like to have, an archival record.
Wah wah wah. Like I said, doom loop.
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I have to confess that another dimension of this is the piss poor state of publishing. I find APCs deeply offensive and don't want to face them, but I don't intend to sign away copyright to a predatory publisher either. Something like 12 of my papers are in the libgen database and I'm not keen to stuff a 13th into the blender (then again, good luck trying to make sense of this one with an LLM lol). As a graduate student I found publishing a challenging but exciting opportunity to communicate with peers. Now I find it to be an onerous chore of navigating smarmy vampiric middlemen to get at the valuable things they unjustly control (distribution channels mainly). I feel compelled to publish this one in conventional-ish channels because it's reporting on grant-funded work and I think it merits, and I'd like to have, an archival record.
Wah wah wah. Like I said, doom loop.
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I have been poking at writing a paper since late last year and am stuck in a "I know it won't achieve what I want it to achieve" doom loop about it, which is an effective motivation sap. This has happened to me every single time I've written something for publication and I find it very frustrating.
This is not really a call for advice--I have a thousand and one strategies, both my own and ones suggested to me by mentors and colleagues past--though I love to collect hot tips about how to write more effectively so I'm not opposed either. Mostly just venting because the other window is a blank page.
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This is not really a call for advice--I have a thousand and one strategies, both my own and ones suggested to me by mentors and colleagues past--though I love to collect hot tips about how to write more effectively so I'm not opposed either. Mostly just venting because the other window is a blank page.
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