Thursday, January 27, 2011

On Technical Paper Writing

January 21, 2011; 8:30-11:30; NIP R108

Technical paper writing is one thing a good physicist must be adept at doing. For one to publish his findings, he must be able to communicate his ideas properly by following the recommended format set by the scientific community. It is important that I, as an aspiring physicist, to become an excellent technical paper writer.

Last meeting, we performed an experiment to find the value of g (~9.8 m/s^2) by using the air track set-up. We were tasked to write a technical paper that documented our findings.

We were taught the different elements of a technical paper (title, abstract, contents, nomenclature, chapters (composed of introduction, review of related literature, methodology, results, analysis, conclusion and recommendation), references and appendices). Sir Pacho also introduced us to the SPP (Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas).

Everything this meeting was very reminiscent of high school science. In my HS, we were required to submit a technical paper once a year- each for integrated science, biology, chemistry and physics, and we were also given general guidelines to follow as to practice uniformity. It was something I admittedly dreaded doing, mainly because writing that kind of paper was very monotonous- I prefer creative writing. But still, I know that it is a MUST that I learn to appreciate it to become an awesome physicist.

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