by Brian Waters | Jan 26, 2020 | Book reviews, Professional Development
Ever since my Mom taught me to read at age 5, I have loved learning from books. I enjoy learning in other ways also, but books have been a major source for me to both learn new things, and to gain additional awareness of nuances about things I was already doing that...
by Brian Waters | Jan 5, 2020 | Book reviews, Publishing, Writing Tips
When writing manuscripts to publish in scientific journals or your thesis chapters, is there any room for creativity? Scientific journals have a rigid format, most of them being IMRaD (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion). There are a few...
by Brian Waters | Nov 26, 2019 | Book reviews, Process, Writing Tips
If you look at writing advice books, on Twitter, on the internet, or wherever, you will come across advice about forming a regular writing habit. Which I think in general is good advice, but how regular should the habit be? When it comes to writing or other creative...
by Brian Waters | Oct 30, 2019 | Book reviews, Process, Publishing
I picked up this book a few years back, when I was preparing to teach my Scientific Writing and Communication course at the University of Nebraska. I was immediately hooked on it, and have gained much in terms of story structure and setting up logical progression of...
by Brian Waters | Oct 24, 2019 | Book reviews
When I began designing my Scientific Writing course at the University of Nebraska, I began by looking for a textbook. I took a close look at about half a dozen books. Some of them seemed dated, some seemed a little too dry, some were too general, but this one was just...
