Reply #148: Keep contributing. Please

[chimpyisstillsatan]

The world need scientists to communicate. I don't do it enough myself outside journals and scientific reports.

You mentioned you were relatively new to communicating your science. I've published 25 papers, including some pretty decent ones in Science and PNAS and I was trying to be constructive. It takes years and years to write well, and I'm not there yet. The secret is in the editing. And re-editing, and re-editing... Those are options we don't really have on DU.

My thesis advisor gave me a copy of Strunk and White when I gave him my first draft of my first paper. Very humbling experience.

IMO, keeping it in simple language is critical, especially when people are nearly panicking.