Lecture Notes
Notes are posted after each class.
Questions about lectures notes should be directed to the lecturer:
Professor Taylor Hughes (THL)
Instructor Celia Elliott (cme)
Course Manager Jessica Raley (JLR)
August 27
Technical Communications for Physicists (cme)
Evaluating Scientific Talks (TLH)
Effective Titles (cme)
September 3
How to Read a Physics Paper (TLH)
Ethics for Young Scientists and Engineers (cme)
September 10
Writing Effective Abstracts (cme)
Avoiding Plagiarism (TLH)
September 17
How to Get Started if You Hate to Write, Part I—Outlines (cme)
Reference Rules and Styles in Scientific Writing (cme)
September 24
How to Get Started if You Hate to Write, Part II—Paragraphs (cme)
Technical Writing 101 (cme)
October 1
Professor Cooper's Guide to Graduate School (restricted)
October 8
Revising Technical Manuscripts (cme)
October 15
Effective Figure Captions for Technical Documents (cme)
October 22
How to Present a Journal Club Talk (cme)
Voice, Person, Tense—Making Verbs Work (cme)
Making Estimates in Research (TLH)
October 29
November 5
A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions (cme)
November 12
CVs, Resumes, and Cover Letters (cme)
Writing Numbers in Technical Documents (cme)
Writing an Effective Statement of Purpose (cme)
November 19
Effective Poster Presentations
Intellectual Property for Physicists (cme)
December 3
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