@satrevik Both! I write a first abstract outlining the questions I want to answer, with placeholders for results (e.g. "the analysis [supported | did not support] our hypothesis"), then go back and rewrite it when everything else is finished.
I was trained to write the Abstract last when preparing an academic paper: finish up the paper first and then summarize it. Over the years I've reversed this: I now write the Abstract as early as possible. This forces me to focus on a few key points, and gives structure to the rest of the writing process.
Unnamed TNG skant beefcake
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Despite being extremely vocal against #LLM , I strongly suspect that too many juniors (not just students) are using it for reports and manuscripts. I have no problem in dedicating my time to edit a draft so that someone with less experience will improve their #academicWriting , but editing #AiSlop is really starting to annoy me.
How are other people in #academia (including juniors) dealing with this? How to tag (or self-tag) someone's own work?
Despite being extremely vocal against #LLM , I strongly suspect that too many juniors (not just students) are using it for reports and manuscripts. I have no problem in dedicating my time to edit a draft so that someone with less experience will improve their #academicWriting , but editing #AiSlop is really starting to annoy me.
How are other people in #academia (including juniors) dealing with this? How to tag (or self-tag) someone's own work?
Nicolas Fressengeas
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Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting#AcademicChatter
Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting#AcademicChatter
New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism https://ideophone.org/oxford-university-press-is-going-all-in-on-surveillance-capitalism/
In which I show that OUP doesn't trust authors with offprints of their own publicly funded work & thinks scholarly exchange is piracy while at the same time selling out to AI slop producer OpenAI #academicchatter#OxfordUniversityPress#OUP #academicwriting
