Report Writing

It's been quite a long since I posted any article. I was bit busy in writing qualifying exam report. Writing report is a painful job, even though one is reporting his own work! The most painful part is literature review. Need to read so many relevant papers, find out appropriate sections, and than, write in your own language. Specially in representing mathematical equations, one need to be very careful for writing in consistent symbols. Thanks to Endnote (and if you are fan of Latex), putting references has become bit easy.

And after writing, the pain is extended in proof-reading, especially with person like me with average English knowledge. Here, the main problem is that one generally loses interest in reading the same report again and again, and quite possibly, can not detect very obvious grammatical mistakes and spelling errors. Best is to ask a good friend for help in such cases. ;)

But believe me, this pain-staking exercise is worth taking. Only the practice, and may be reading, will help. And in this competitive science career, it is extremely important to know how to represent your work, whether writing a conference paper, journal paper, or even a grant proposal.