How to Prepare a Really Lousy Submission: Water Resources Research Editorial Team
Sent to me from colleagues at the University of Utah. [PDF]
How NOT to review a paper. The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
A paper by Graham Cormode (2009) [PDF], sent to me by Rene Garreaud. The abstract gives you a flavor of how this paper reads…. There are several useful guides available for how to review a paper in Computer Science. These are soberly presented, carefully reasoned and sensibly argued. As a result, they are not much […]
“Utilize” versus “Use”
December 18, 2012 Filed under Blog, Featured, Uncategorized, Writing
From The Telegraph (sent to me by Jamie Gilmour): When the American writer David Foster Wallace died four years ago, he left behind the following fragments: notes towards a dictionary all of his own. Utilize A noxious puff-word. Since it does nothing that good old use doesn’t do, its extra letters and syllables don’t make […]
Wanted: Copyeditor. Inquire with God.
(From slate.com)
Have you heard the one about PowerPoint?
September 26, 2012 Filed under Blog, Featured, Humor, Presentations
A word about PowerPoint. PowerPoint was released by Microsoft in 1990 as a way to euthanize cattle using a method less cruel than hitting them over the head with iron mallets. After PETA successfully argued in court that PowerPoint actually was more cruel than iron mallets, the program was adopted by corporations for slide show […]
