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How To Think Logically

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Base your writing on logical thinking. Learn to use inductive and deductive reasoning in your writing. Avoid common fallacies.

INDUCTIVE REASONING: When you reason inductively, you begin with a number of instances (facts or observations) and use them to draw a general conclusion. Whenever you interpret evidence, you reason inductively. The use of probability [...]

学会用GOOGLE做research

学会用GOOGLE做research

转自李笑来老师的博客(http://www.xiaolai.net),收藏下来。

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Google是我们这个时代最伟大的产品之一。有了Google,本质上谁都有能力做“research”(研究)——“research”在今天已经不再像许多年前那样是少数“精英”的专利了。我常常告诉我的学生,“research”其实一点都不神秘;所谓的“research”其实只不过是“search, search, and… REsearch!”在中文里,“research”除了“研究”之外还可以用另外一个说法来翻译——“做学问”。中文的“学问”这个词拆开来是两个字“学”和“问”。做学问的人一样要学,一样要问,只不过他们比别人把“学”和“问”重复更多遍而已。

Google是个可以用来research(做学问)的工具,而国内的百度相对来讲,在这方面差了不是一点半点。相对来看Google还是更讲原则的一个产品。Google的搜索结果就是搜索结果,赞助商链接摆在旁边;而百度却为了赚钱把赞助商链接与搜索结果混在一起,并且更进一步,百度把赞助商链接放在搜索结果之前。前阵子媒体就有过报道,有一位中年人为了治疗癌症上百度搜索,找了家医院,最后病情并未得到控制,钱倒是多花了许多。百度的这种做法,直接导致人们无法分辨搜索结果与广告之间的区别,最终导致错误的判断。“如果提供假药信息,搜索引擎就是助纣为虐,谋财害命!”——国家食品药品监督管理局新闻发言人颜江瑛说(网易新闻2008年9月18日)。

Paper Writing skills: Problems that editors seem to encounter again and again

This paper is originally from University of Minnesota.

It presents a series of common mistakes that we often make. So have you made any mistakes of them as follows? Whatever it takes, I do.
I figure it’s a very good guidance for young researchers who want to publish top papers. I would like to share it [...]