FINALLY, the time has come: You have to teach. There's just one catch: How do you do it? Even more important, how do you do it well? It doesn't matter whether you are a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or faculty member: Good teaching practices are important. Why? The obvious answer is that good teaching practices are important when you teach. The less obvious answer is that good teaching p...
Douglas Curran-Everett is a clinical assistant professor in two departments at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In his essay, Curran-Everett explores issues that women and men must confront if all talented women can succeed in science. Scientists are men. --Anonymous boy, second grade (1995) I am sick to death of the gender stuff. Let's just drop the gender stuff. It's not neces...
( Part one of this article was published on 10 September.) Some Strategies to Try in the Game It is from the dual perspectives of author and reviewer that I offer the following strategies. If you adopt these strategies, I cannot guarantee you will always win, but I bet that you will find the game of publication to be a whole lot more fun. Write your manuscript as you would a story. The reviewers ...
AHA! After months of daily tedium, you've done the last experiment. You thought you'd never finish. Now all you have to do is write the paper. How hard can that be? The experiment went flawlessly. Besides, you like to write. You chuckle. And you thought this science thing was going to be hard. You write the paper. You send it to the journal. You celebrate. You can't wait to get the reviews. You a...
