Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
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The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
CAREER COLUMN 26 September 2019 The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself. By Van Savage0 & Pamela Yeh1 Van Savage Van Savage is a theoretical biologist and ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA. Pamela Yeh Pamela Yeh is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA. For the past two decades, Cormac McCarthy — whose ten novels include The Road, No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian — has provided…
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