Saturday, March 6, 2010

Tips on writing papers

Fritz Schaefer is one of world's leading computational chemists. It is interesting read his list of minimum requirements for a first draft of a paper from his group. Two things to note:
  • the emphasis that computational chemistry should be motivated by and ultimately connect with experiment
  • the figures are key

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