Lecture Notes
Notes are posted after each class.
Questions about lectures notes should be directed to the lecturer:
(TLH) Professor Taylor Hughes
(cme) Instructor Celia Elliott
January 18
Course Overview (TLH)
Evaluating Scientific Talks (TLH)
Effective Titles (cme)
PHYS 496 FAQ (cme)
January 25
How to Read a Physics Paper—The Four i's (TLH)
How to Get Started if You Hate to Write—Part I, Outlining (cme)
February 1
How to Get Started if You Hate to Write—Part II, Paragraphs (cme)
Technical Writing 101 FAQ (cme)
Making Estimates in Research (TLH)
February 8
Writing Effective Abstracts (cme)
Advice about Graduate School, S. Lance Cooper
February 15
Avoiding Plagiarism (TLH)
Reference Rules and Styles in Scientific Writing (cme)
Caps and Acronyms (cme)
February 22
Revising and Editing Your Work (cme)
March 1
Effective Figure Captions for Technical Documents (cme)
March 8
Effective Science Talks (cme)
March 15
How to Organize Your Journal-Club Presentation (cme)
Voice and Tense—Making Verbs Work (cme)
March 22—No Class, Spring Break
March 29
Collaborative Writing (cme)
April 5
Writing Instructions (cme)
A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making (cme)
Mass, Count, and Collective Nouns (cme)
April 12
CVs and Resumes (cme)
Writing a Statement of Purpose for Graduate School Admissions (cme)
Professional Correspondence for Physicists (cme)
April 19
Intellectual Property for Physicists (cme)
April 26
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