The Hamill lab blog
When reporting your results, you have two main options regarding stats reporting: If you selected a critical value that your P value needed to reach for you to reject your null hypothesis then the outcome has to be binary. Data are either significant or not significant. However, remember that a P value is a measure…
Just a quick announcement to say that Chapter 7 of Life in the Lab has now been uploaded and is available to download here. The new chapter adds sections on each of the different elements of a primary data paper; title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion. This content started life as my…
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Life in the lab pre-print: chapter 5 release
A little while ago I announced a book would be coming soon. Well, sometimes soon takes longer that you would like, so I have decided to release a pre-print version. Check it out here: https://leanpub.com/lifeinthelab Pre-print? The version released now contains chapters 1 to 4. The remaining 6 chapters are all written but aren’t quite…
Can I ask a favour? I’d like your opinion. I’ve been putting together a book recently that contains the advice and info that I would want anyone starting a research project to have. However, what should the title be? (Poll/suggestions below) Some quick info. I see the target markets as undergraduate students starting their final…
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Like to see more of our new cartoon series? #5 seems like a good place to start! Don’t be like JohnJohn, read our guide to writing the introduction sections to manuscripts / project reports / lab reports etc here Or other parts of your project here
Check back on Monday for #6 #4 available here (and links to the rest) or Meet the characters Or, if you are feeling really keen, read about how Kevin actually did bring in the Mongol invasion of India in his PhD thesis and viva; here.
Added content to the writing guides section: How to guide for writing results sections for scientific reports / manuscripts / PhD thesis chapters
This month I have examined two PhD theses and read three MRes project reports and I thought I would share some simple advice to help what should be the easiest and clearest part of any thesis/manuscript/report. The advice below is what I do, not every PI will agree with this format 0) Analyse your data,…
