Boing Boing » process http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The many stages of writing a research paper http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/the-many-stages-of-writing-a-r.html http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/the-many-stages-of-writing-a-r.html#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:56:42 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=197241

Timothy Weninger recently submitted a research paper to a computer science conference called World Wide Web. On his way to that, he went through 463 drafts. Bear in mind, this paper has only been submitted, not yet accepted, so there's probably even more edits that are still yet to happen. Welcome to the life of a scientist.

In this video, Weninger created a timelapse showing all the different stages of his writing process, as he added graphs and went through cycles of expanding, contracting, and expanding the text. But mostly expanding. The paper grows from two pages to 10 by the end of the video.

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Via Bill Bell

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