Writing a rough draft of a scientific paper: expanding an outline until there's a paper (CC061)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2021-01-07

Writing is a challenge. In this episode of Code Club, I show how I take a rough outline and expand upon the bullet points until sentences, paragraphs, and the rough draft of a manuscript emerge. Central to my process is using the "... and ... but ... therefore ... " model to writing narrative.

This episode is part of a larger arc of episodes investigating the sensitivity and specificity of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), also known as exact sequence variants (ESVs). ASVs are growing in popularity for analyzing microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Proponents think that they should supplant operational taxonomic units (OTUs). What do you think? Pat demonstrates these concepts by live coding at the command line interface using GitHub Flow, Make, and RStudio.

0:00 Introduction
1:12 and ... but ... therefore
7:11 Expanding the outline
21:18 Intros & Discussions
24:13 Outline to draft
28:52 Conclusion

The accompanying blog post contains the exercises and solutions can be found at http://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2020-01-07-first-draft