1. | Writing your first paper | March 15th (Tues): Basic aspects and points to remember for technical writing (a) the writing process (b) overviews, outlines (see Whitesides AdvMater) (c) paragraph construction (d) sentence construction (what is the formula?) March 17th (Thurs): your first paper: how do you know when to write? (general preparation of papers, when to write, differences between Communications, Articles). Overview of different types of journalsl impact factor; what is the general process? How do you know how to organize a paper? Read thru one journal and one article (Frechet Comm and JACS Article) March 18th (Fri): Makeup class (March 23, 28thth): Writing a Communication; preparation of experimental information making an outline; making figures; estimating the number of figs |
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2. | Workshop #3-Communication & Peer review | March 29th (Tues): Student workshops on technical writing March 31th (Thurs): Student workshops on technical writing |
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3. | Preparing Full Articles vs. Communications (1) | April 5th (Tues): Putting together a story for your Writing Assignment April 7th (Thurs): Putting together a story for your Writing Assignment |
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4. | Preparing Full Articles vs. Communications (2) | April 5th (Tues): Putting together a story for your Writing Assignment April 7th (Thurs): Putting together a story for your Writing Assignment |
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5. | 1st Assignment due: Communication | topic for your proposal with approval of your research advisor April 12th (Tues): How to write a proposal: examples of proposals April 14th (Thurs): Workshop on outlining a proposal |
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6. | Review papers, persective articles | April 19th (Tues): Workshop on putting your proposal together April 21th (Thurs): Dissertations, general comments on writing for your thesis |
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7. | Workshop 4: outlining and preparing Reviews | April 26th (Tues): industrial technical documents: labnotebooks memorandums, technical reports (group workshops where people show their labnote book PDFs) April 28th (Wed): Workshop 6a: preparation of a proposal |
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8. | Professional documents: CV, resumes, cover letters, reports, mission statements, patents | May 10th (Tues): student workshops May 12th (Thurs): student workshops |