Archive for December 2014

Have you ever had a paper in the pipeline that just sat there week after week because life was full of lectures, research, grant proposals, and other commitments? And even though you really wanted to get those results out there, you struggled to find the time to sit down and write? […]

Yes, yes, it’s the first post of the blog—but, rather than going on about firsts and all that, let’s talk about more important “beginnings”—that is, the first sentence of the Abstract of your paper. After the title, this sentence is where the reader forms that all-important first impression […]