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Interview Notes (Late)

I had some considerable difficulty trying to connect with someone in order to get my interview, which I think was partly because of my indecisiveness in choosing someone, but I was luckily able to get together with a T.A. of mine in the Chem. department eventually. Although he was my third choice and may not be as credible as, per say, a professor, I still think he was a good source with lots of writing experience in the field of chemistry.

Christian Haas: *first year Ph.d student in the chem. dep.
*In field research experience w/ geology and synthetics.
*Published author in Geoscience.
*T.A. for Principles of Chem.

Notes; N-A writing is considerably more frequent; up to 60 times a week
-20% Academic, 80% Non-academic
-Jargon is significant; not black and white, adjust vocab to audience significantly.
-structure of Academic papers is rigorous; must be ACS style.
-Writing background is extremely helpful in the field, made academic writing much much easier for him
-A. writing is typically lab reports or journal articles.
-Tone is usually extremely uniform in ACS, eliminates any unique 'voice.'
-Unique steps; often content and data first, your 'body,' paragraphs, then conclusion, then intro, and lastly abstract.
-Wide range of number of references; 20-100
-ACS has very easy, quick references.
-Science Library has multiple sources.
-ACS.org is a great source.
-E-mails the most popular form of N-A writing.
-Headings differ greatly depending on paper.

Only a brief overview, it ended up being a solid 40 min. interview that yielded lots info.

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