How to Read a Paper [pdf]

Post by exo-pla-net » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 5:25 PM UTC

This is the 2007 version. The latest 2016 version can be read here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220615001635/http://blizzard.c...

Or here:

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~jcmace/teaching/cds-ss20/paper-r...

Or here:

https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/papers/07/paper-re...

Here's the current website of Dr. Keshav, the author:

https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/wiki/index.php/HTR...

The links in the 2016 paper itself are rotten, but he provides updated links on his website above.

Post by dmillar » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 6:46 PM UTC

mattmmatthews wrote: post #46

dmillar wrote: post #27

I used to write research at Goldman. Our chief economist would often give this book as an end-of-year gift. I found it useful in my writing: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo256745...

I'm not interested in the economy, explicitly. Would you recommend this for someone who is geared towards technical writing and just getting better at it in general? I've never thought about reading a book about how to write better, to be totally honest, but how could it hurt?

Yes, it's short and insightful for all kinds of writers--technical and otherwise. The editions subsequent to the first have decreased emphasis on economics and instead geared it toward academic-style writing.

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