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Academic urban legends edit / delete

"Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. [...] To illustrate this phenomenon, I draw upon a remarkable case in which a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron." It's more complicated than it sounds. Recommended reading for students who wonder why we complain about inadequate references -- and for seasoned researchers who may well have exactly the same problems...

to academia ag0700 citation nutrition referencing research spinach writing ... on 24 August 2014

Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts: Home edit / delete

"The Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand." I'm not really very interested in Jane Austen's fiction itself, but the details of how the manuscripts were preserved and digitised are really interesting.

to etext fiction history jane-austen language manuscript preservation writing ... on 24 August 2014

Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences: A Toolkit for Writing Reproducible Research Papers and Monographs edit / delete

Writing using org-mode as an outliner, and embedding analysis.

to academia org outliner research typesetting writing ... on 26 July 2014

Open Competitive Intelligence Resources - SCIP edit / delete

("Competitive intelligence" is what the CIA does.) "Analytic Thinking and Presentation for Intelligence Producers" is interesting as an introductory guide to research writing; students may like to read the advice on structuring an argument, editing for succinctness, and giving good presentations.

to ag0700 editing intelligence presentation research writing ... on 30 November 2013

The HoTT book « Mathematics and Computation edit / delete

Evangelising the use of proper version control for collaborative writing. (Which seems kind of obvious to me, but it's surprisingly hard to persuade people about.)

to academia git scm tex writing ... on 11 July 2013

Copy, Shake, and Paste: A good definition of plagiarism edit / delete

As it says. One to add to the 0700 lecture (and project intros). The blog as a whole is quite interesting.

to academia ag0700 plagiarism writing ... on 24 March 2013

Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc edit / delete

A guide to writing man pages. Particularly useful because it describes the best way to do this with modern man tools.

to etext man manual unix writing ... on 04 March 2012

The Elements of Style by William Strunk - Project Gutenberg edit / delete

The original version, before White's (more prescriptive) amendments.

to ag0700 english style writing ... on 03 December 2011

Long Live Pitman's Shorthand! Devoted to New Era Shorthand edit / delete

It turns out to be remarkably difficult to find decent web sites about shorthand -- this one's about the most detailed I've seen.

to shorthand writing ... on 24 December 2009

Translator's Notes edit / delete

Annotated version of the English translation of "The Mystery Guest". Interesting reading, but the site design's really irritating!

to translation writing ... on 04 December 2006