{"id":1168,"date":"2012-04-20T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:29:12","slug":"writing-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Writing Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/writing-science.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1175 aligncenter\" title=\"writing science\" src=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/writing-science.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our lab group just finished reading this book by Josh Schimel. We read two chapters a week and discussed them, which was a nice pace for absorbing the material. It&#8217;s easy to read, but there is so much good advice that it&#8217;s nice to have time for it to sink in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Overall, the book is fantastic. It feels like a secret weapon.\u00a0I can&#8217;t recommend it enough for any science writer at any stage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Science-Papers-Proposals-Funded\/dp\/0199760241\">At the book&#8217;s Amazon page<\/a>, I felt similarly to this reviewer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have 70 published papers in international, peer-reviewed journals; and I want to go back to each and every one of them and rewrite them with the messages from this book clear in my head and clear to the reader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately I found the book earlier than this guy, but I am also eyeing my past papers and realizing how I could have made them much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab group just finished reading this book by Josh Schimel. We read two chapters a week and discussed them, which was a nice pace for absorbing the material. It&#8217;s easy to read, but there is so much good advice that it&#8217;s nice to have time for it to sink in. Overall, the book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}