Lectures on Particular General Skills

• Lecture 4: Literature Search
• Here we talked about getting good hooks into the literature.
• We also talked about citation indexes, moving back and forth following citations, quality of papers and keeping reading.
• We also talked about the mechanics of citations and bibliographies.
• Use literature to support your arguments.
• Lecture 5: Statistics
• Here we made a very brief tour of statistics.
• I think of it as an expansion of probability.
• Power and significance of statistics is particularly important.
• The key here is to be able to figure it out when it's needed, and do not worry about it.
• Lecture 6: Writing
• Here we talked about basics (sentence structure, grammar, outlines).
• We also talked about the standard structure of a paper (intro, literature, study, results, conclusion) and some other options.
• We talked about writing as a way to learn.
• Finally, we also talked about giving talks briefly.