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Jan. 22nd, 2010 02:23 pmI can't get onto the server at work, so most of what I will be doing today is taking my internal reports and notes and starting to put them into 'paper' format. My boss suggested that the first step should be taking all the figures, equations and tables I have, putting them in, then writing enough text to explain how I got from A to Z. Then write the introduction, which explains the previous work and what I'm going to do, and the conclusion, which explains what I found out. Then write the abstract, which is the 200-word summary of what the paper says in more detail. I know from coffee hours, most people will read the abstract and maybe glance at the figures.
Also, when I can get to my data once again, I have one more normalization thing I want to try. I also want to see if I can make some greyscale plots. Scientific article publishing is one of the few non-vanity outlets where Yog's Law* does not apply -- many journals charge authors per-page to publish articles, and more for color printing. Icarus, the main journal for planetary science, doesn't, but still charges for color figures.
* Yog's Law states that "Money should always flow toward the author", the idea being that the best way to make sure a publisher is legit is that s/he is willing to shoulder the financial risk of a book. (As a result, only books that several people think will sell will get to print. Scientific journal writing, OTOH, has peer-review as a separate step, and the per-page charges, usually paid for by grants, are mostly to offset the fact that not that many people read scientific journals. (And it keeps people from turning in hundred-page monstrosities.))
Also, when I can get to my data once again, I have one more normalization thing I want to try. I also want to see if I can make some greyscale plots. Scientific article publishing is one of the few non-vanity outlets where Yog's Law* does not apply -- many journals charge authors per-page to publish articles, and more for color printing. Icarus, the main journal for planetary science, doesn't, but still charges for color figures.
* Yog's Law states that "Money should always flow toward the author", the idea being that the best way to make sure a publisher is legit is that s/he is willing to shoulder the financial risk of a book. (As a result, only books that several people think will sell will get to print. Scientific journal writing, OTOH, has peer-review as a separate step, and the per-page charges, usually paid for by grants, are mostly to offset the fact that not that many people read scientific journals. (And it keeps people from turning in hundred-page monstrosities.))
