Priming my brain

Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Sacha Chua

I downloaded more than a hundred research papers today to catch up on
my literature review and prime my brain for academic writing. Writing
for the technical audience of a scientific journal is very different
from writing for informal or popular audiences, and it’ll take me some
practice to get the hang of it. If my blog entries start to sound like
research papers, at least you’ll know why.

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