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• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Top 10 Hints for Academic Writing. PG Writing Group 2/12/12, on the site PG Writing Group 5 months, 2 weeks ago

  PG Writing Group 2/12/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  As this the last post for the PG Writing Group for 2012 I thought I would end the year with a list of my Top 10 recommendations for academic […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, The unpleasant truth about feedback. PG Writing Group 26/11/12, on the site PG Writing Group 5 months, 3 weeks ago

   

  PG Writing Group 26/11/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  How many times have you been told not to take feedback on your academic writing personally? We all know that we should be grateful […]

• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, marine methane oxidation coupled to sulfate respiration, on the site dissolution 6 months ago

  A very interesting article published in Nature this month:

  Milucka, J., Ferdelman, T.G., Polerecky, L., Franzke, D., Wegener, G., Schmid, M., Lieberwirth, I., Wagner, M., Widdel, F., Kuypers, M.M.M. Zero-valent […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Why is writing a research proposal so hard? PG Writing Group 19/11/12, on the site PG Writing Group 6 months ago

  

  PG Writing Group 19/11/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  Developing thesis writing skills involves blood, sweat & tears for pretty much everyone. To make things just that little bit harder, […]

• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, what’s expected of graduate students, on the site dissolution 6 months ago

  This isn’t a post with general advice to postgraduates, but an idea of what is expected of you, and what you can expect, if you join this group as a graduate research student.

  In no particular order, the list […]

• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, listening skills for scientists, on the site dissolution 6 months, 1 week ago

  So, I’m sitting in a symposium (as I type, as it happens) and an esteemed Professor of Soil Chemistry has just finished an interesting talk which addresses the future of soil science in the context of food […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Negative Results: Writing about Dark Data – PG Writing Group 12/11/12, on the site PG Writing Group 6 months, 1 week ago

  PG Writing Group 12/11/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  In his article Freeing the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments, Goetze talks about the benefits of publishing negative research […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Challenges in HDR Studies – PG Writing Group 05/11/12, on the site PG Writing Group 6 months, 2 weeks ago

  PG Writing Group 05/11/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  A Finnish research group have recently published a paper entitled Challenges of Becoming a Scholar: A Study of Doctoral Students’ Problems […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Publication Protocols: PG Writing Group 24/09/12, on the site PG Writing Group 6 months, 4 weeks ago

  

  PG Writing Group 24/09/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  Love it or hate it, publication in peer-reviewed journals is most commonly used to communicate research and judge research success. If […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Reporting Statistics in Academic Writing PG Writing Group 22/10/12, on the site PG Writing Group 7 months ago

  

  PG Writing Group 22/10/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  If the very mention of the word statistics makes you feel anxious, apparently you are not alone. There are a number of published papers […]