Foreign Perspectives

In principle, this should be a relatively simple EMA as it’s essentially writing up the results of various experiments that we’ve already done and with the 3000 words spread over four basic experiments there’s not an awful lot to be written about each one.

I’ve spent the past couple of days making a start on it, first gathering together the notes from the various places, then typing up the list of references and finally getting going with the materials and methods section which is probably the easiest one to do. They were very keen on illustrations so I’ve added the first one already.

The results section is probably going to be the most time-consuming one to do as it’s where all the graphs, tables and most of the illustrations will end up. Actually writing it should be fine with around 200-300 words per experiment. I’m guessing at a couple of hours for it overall.

Next up should be the discussion which could be quite complicated although I seem to have quite a lot of notes about it so perhaps not. At the moment the hardest thing seems to be tying together the various strands of the experiment.

The introduction also looks like being quite difficult to do in that it needs to refer to biological principles, supporting articles and generally to set the background for the experiment.

Finally, there’s the abstract and title which would be a doddle but for the tight word count.