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Scientific writing is hard work. Granted, it is not as physically exhausting as swinging a pick or as mentally demanding as solving a nonlinear differential equation but it requires focus and patience. Moreover, the solutions are not exact. You do not draft a document and sit back and say, “Perfect.” No matter how many times you revise a document, you will find phrases that will not sound quite right and the beginnings of sentences in which you feel compelled to state five details at once.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan [1].
—Margaret Thatcher
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Alley, M. (2018). Using Your Writing Time Efficiently. In: The Craft of Scientific Writing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8288-9_10
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