how to write a scientific paper: advice told through a series of tweets

how to write a scientific paper? http://t.co/z6nznqbgjE #orms #math #orblog kudos to @felixoneberlin

— Marco Lübbecke (@mluebbecke) November 21, 2014

Writing advice: "Just puke on the page, knowing that you can clean it up and make it structurally sound later" https://t.co/M00wk9MlhA

— Laura Albert McLay (@lauramclay) August 4, 2016

@lauramclay I like Terry Tao's suggestion of 'rapid prototyping' https://t.co/LPfHsCicRO

— Drew Lewis (@siwelwerd) May 4, 2015

Doing vs Writing https://t.co/ZvSMLfP0m1 pic.twitter.com/T1mBPDFq0y

— PHD Comics (@PHDcomics) July 8, 2016

I'm talking to PhD students about technical writing today. Half my advice is now covered in Weird Al's "Word Crimes" https://t.co/if49PiKlWo

— Laura Albert McLay (@lauramclay) October 15, 2014

Advice from the writing center in my PhD course: Park on a downward slope, i.e., finish in a way that makes it easy to start writing again

— Laura Albert McLay (@lauramclay) October 22, 2014

In college I was annoyed by our writing requirements.
Then: "I'm going to be a scientist. What do I need so much writing for?"
Now: "oh."

— Bashir3000 (@Bashir9ist) August 22, 2013

The goal in technical writing is not to be possible to understand, but to be hard to misunderstand.

— John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) April 20, 2015