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Arenamontanus comments on How to write an academic paper, according to me - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 October 2014 12:29PM

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Comment author: Arenamontanus 15 October 2014 02:57:48PM 2 points [-]

In some journals there is a text box with up to four take home message sentences summarizing what the paper gives us. It is even easier to skim than the abstract, and typically stated in easy (for the discipline) language. I quite like it, although one should recognize that many papers have official conclusions that are a bit at variance with the actual content (or just a biased glass half-full/half-empty interpretation).