Clément CanonneNov 18, 2022

It's the "applications!" time of the year, so let me link to these insightful and oh-so-helpful (and witty) slides by Rocco Servedio on how to write a research statement academic positions and postdocs, from the 2021 Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop:
https://let-all.com/assets/slides/How-to-COLT-Rocco.pdf

Lots of good stuff, meaningful advice, and Herman Melville.
#academia #academicjobmarket #researchstatement #hermanmelville

Show threadNalini JoshiNov 18, 2022
@ccanonne anyone who mentions Strunk and White #ElementsOfStyle and Herman Melville’s books and poems as #WritingTips has my attention…
Show thread⏚ Antoine Chambert-LoirNov 18, 2022
@monsoon0 @ccanonne do you manage to use Struck&White for your math writing? I bought it long ago but it mostly stays quiet on its shelf...
Show threadClément CanonneNov 19, 2022
@antoinechambertloir @monsoon0 for me it's mostly a book I try to read now and then, hoping to "absorb" it a little bit at a time. It's on my shelf, and semi-regularly I'll pick it up and go through it (it's small enough, that helps).
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@ccanonne @antoinechambertloir @monsoon0

Don Knuth mentioned S&W (but not Melville) in his 1987 course on Mathematical Writing. Some of it can be found on YouTube! And there are notes:

https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematical_writing.pdf

Nov 19, 2022 at 2:22amWeb