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http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/brain-initiative
https://twitter.com/DoctorZen/status/331846493088665600
https://twitter.com/DrStelling/status/331846493889781760
“How can I make this soundscientific?”
When you write anessay, do you choosebig or complex wordsto make the writingseem more valid orintelligent?Oppenheimer DE. ...
Readers judgepeople who writemore complicatedtext as lessintelligent.Oppenheimer DE. 2006. Appl Cog Psych 20: 139–156http:...
“Sub-adult dependents”http://efnep.ucdavis.edu/Mission.html
“A substantial rainfall event…”
It is postulated thatmembranes changefrom a continuous statewhen hydrated to adiscontinuous statewhen dried. As pollenmois...
I think pollenmembranes crack whenthey dry out.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/03/science-ese-2/http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf...
Abundant availability ofhost trees due toaltered disturbanceregimes has facilitatedan unprecedented,landscape-wideoutbreak...
ALL THE TREES AREDEAD. ALL OF THEM.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/09/science-ese-slight-understatement-edition/http://robert...
Easy onesThe fact thatIn order toAt this point in timeAs to whetherAs well asServes asAre shown to beAre well known andack...
More easy onesObtainUtilizeCapablePossessInitiallySubsetNumerousContainerizedGetUseCanHaveFirstSomeManyPut in a bag
“Nearly every writingproblem you have canbe solved by makingthings simpler.”– John ScalziWriting Tips for Non-Writers Who ...
http://xkcd.com/1133/
http://xkcd.com/1133/
http://xkcd.com/1133/
http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
http://tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/cassubu-20080417.html“A loving upgoerfive intro to Saturn and some of its moons”By Ra...
(A)n average six-year-oldhas a vocabulary… of16,000 words. And anaverage adult’s vocabularyis around 60,000. So UpGoer Fiv...
http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.html
http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.html
http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.htmlHigh score = more readable
https://twitter.com/johnhawks/status/119493180931575808
Punctuate, damn you(Apostrophe use) is aninstantaneous methodfor determiningwhether the personwriting is facile withthe la...
If you don’t have time toread, you don’t have thetime (or the tools) towrite. Simple as that.– Stephen Kinghttp://www.npr....
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Presentation of scientific writing given at C-STEM, The University of Texas-Pan American, on 9 May 2013.

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  1. 1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/brain-initiative
  2. 2. https://twitter.com/DoctorZen/status/331846493088665600
  3. 3. https://twitter.com/DrStelling/status/331846493889781760
  4. 4. “How can I make this soundscientific?”
  5. 5. When you write anessay, do you choosebig or complex wordsto make the writingseem more valid orintelligent?Oppenheimer DE. 2006. Appl Cog Psych 20: 139–156http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/10/grandiloquent-erudite-http://www.digitaloffice.ca/eOfficeProducts/product.php?productid=2570460
  6. 6. Readers judgepeople who writemore complicatedtext as lessintelligent.Oppenheimer DE. 2006. Appl Cog Psych 20: 139–156http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/10/grandiloquent-erudite-vernacular.htmlhttp://cheezburger.com/6575122176
  7. 7. “Sub-adult dependents”http://efnep.ucdavis.edu/Mission.html
  8. 8. “A substantial rainfall event…”
  9. 9. It is postulated thatmembranes changefrom a continuous statewhen hydrated to adiscontinuous statewhen dried. As pollenmoisture content isreduced, membranestructure alters; ineffect, becoming moreporous.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/03/science-ese-2/http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/37249
  10. 10. I think pollenmembranes crack whenthey dry out.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/03/science-ese-2/http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/37249
  11. 11. Abundant availability ofhost trees due toaltered disturbanceregimes has facilitatedan unprecedented,landscape-wideoutbreak of this pest inBritish Columbia andAlberta, Canada, duringthe past decade.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/09/science-ese-slight-understatement-edition/http://robertmcrowe.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/road-trip-through-changing-climate/
  12. 12. ALL THE TREES AREDEAD. ALL OF THEM.http://sarcozona.org/2012/10/09/science-ese-slight-understatement-edition/http://robertmcrowe.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/road-trip-through-changing-climate/
  13. 13. Easy onesThe fact thatIn order toAt this point in timeAs to whetherAs well asServes asAre shown to beAre well known andacknowledgedThatToNowWhetherAndIsAreAre
  14. 14. More easy onesObtainUtilizeCapablePossessInitiallySubsetNumerousContainerizedGetUseCanHaveFirstSomeManyPut in a bag
  15. 15. “Nearly every writingproblem you have canbe solved by makingthings simpler.”– John ScalziWriting Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writinghttp://poisonedpen.com/event/john-scalzi-signs-the-human-division/
  16. 16. http://xkcd.com/1133/
  17. 17. http://xkcd.com/1133/
  18. 18. http://xkcd.com/1133/
  19. 19. http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
  20. 20. http://tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com/
  21. 21. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/cassubu-20080417.html“A loving upgoerfive intro to Saturn and some of its moons”By Rachel Klippensteinhttp://io9.com/5977086/this-upgoerfive-about-saturn-and-its-moons-is-a-truly-beautiful-thing
  22. 22. (A)n average six-year-oldhas a vocabulary… of16,000 words. And anaverage adult’s vocabularyis around 60,000. So UpGoer Five is only useful ifyou are going to talk topre-schoolers.Carl Zimmerhttp://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rjks59http://taishimizu.com/320/NECSS-2011
  23. 23. http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.html
  24. 24. http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.html
  25. 25. http://womeninwetlands.blogspot.com/2012/09/somenovice-writers-think-that-more.htmlHigh score = more readable
  26. 26. https://twitter.com/johnhawks/status/119493180931575808
  27. 27. Punctuate, damn you(Apostrophe use) is aninstantaneous methodfor determiningwhether the personwriting is facile withthe language and/orcares about doingthings correctly.– Seth Godinhttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/05/do_apostrophes_.html
  28. 28. If you don’t have time toread, you don’t have thetime (or the tools) towrite. Simple as that.– Stephen Kinghttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128239303

Accompanies YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SToUYbQ5Spc Presentation of scientific writing given at C-STEM, The University of Texas-Pan American, on 9 May 2013.

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