Top 10 no-sympathy lines, and 10 top must-answer lines
Via a friend’s recommendation (thanks, Rob!), Wisconsin-Green Bay geologist Steve Dutch’s Top 10 No-Sympathy Lines that students shouldn’t try. To balance out the professor snark, let me add a few concerns of students that faculty should always be willing to address and should, ideally, be described in the syllabus or other documents available early in […]
Emergency! Abstract needed!
The first author of a piece I’m third or fourth author of e-mailed me with an urgent request to shape the abstract before it’s sent off, tonight, to an editor. This is a long MS (88 pages), and he hoped to have the abstract in an hour “or so.” I leaned on the “or so” […]