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Writing compactly, 12 comments:.
No need to write a paper if you can make your point in a tweet. Except that tweets don't build a good CV )-;
Very good advice. Unless you're being paid by the word (as with some famous 19th century authors), in which case "never use 1 word when 10 will do". :-)
In my salad days, I was a corporation lawyer. I had a client who absolutely refused to read anything I sent him that was more than one page long. Further he insisted that the page have generous margins and the writing be set forth in a series of "bullet points" (i.e. like a power point slide). And, he had zero tolerance for jargon. Keeping him happy was quite a challenge, but I learned a lot about how to be concise and communicative.
Prof Cochrane - did you, in the past, post a 4 page paper on using the language/ methodology of software programming to describe economic modelling? If so, would you mind posting a link to it on your blog? Thanks.
The advice for journalists and economic commentators working for newspapers is of course the direct opposite of the above. I.e. if you can take a simple point and turn it into a thousand words of impressive sounding hot air and waffle, you’ll be guaranteed a secure job and decent pay with some newspaper.
There are few points worth making that cannot be made in 250 words. Many concepts could have been a brilliant essay but instead became a mediocre 350 page book.
Smaller point but I used your conclusion in a discussion this fall "May economists falsely think of themselves as scientists who just “write up” research. We are not" just a typo (many) worth fixing while you're at it. Thanks for the wonderful advice!!!!
Yeah. "Fix typos before you release anything" is more good advice in the "do as I say don't do as I do" category.
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Writing tips for PhD students. Research. Jun 8. Written By John Cochrane. May 2005. Some tips on how to write academic articles. Do as I say, not as I do. Chinese Translation, 2013. (Original source of chinese translation.
John H. Cochrane1,2 Graduate School of Business University of Chicago 5807 S. Woodlawn Chicago IL 60637. 773 702 3059. ... claims in the body of the paper, (writing in good triangular style), then saying it all over again is pointless. I tried omitting the conclusions section a few times, though, and this was ...
Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students JohnH.Cochrane12 GraduateSchoolofBusiness UniversityofChicago 5807S.Woodlawn ChicagoIL60637. 7737023059. [email protected]
The Complete Archive of Publications by John H. Cochrane: RESEARCH. This page covers all my academic writing, including published books, papers, working papers and comments. ... The Paper> Slides> Apr 25, 2024. Macro | Money | Fiscal Theory, Talks & Comments, Articles. Jan 4, 2024.
Writing John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution, Stanford University and NBER August 1, 2022 1/7. General I You are a writer. I All writing is editing. Hence rules, many negative. Study, choose, ... I Don't \to the best of our knowledge this paper is the rst to..." I Don't make up acronyms. KISS. I Point: Clarity, honesty, transparency, easy to ...
Karen Head, John Hilton, Toby Lasserson, Laura MacDonald, Richard Morley, Tom Patterson, Laura ... Guidance for writing a Cochrane Plain language summary 8 General advice on writing in plain language We encourage you to use this advice as a guide while you write [1, 2, 3]. When you have written your
John Cochrane's blog. Saturday, November 22, 2014. Writing compactly A correspondent sends a suggested edit of a part of my writing tips for PhD students With markup. Keep it short. Keep the paper as short as possible. Be concise. Every word must count. As you edit the paper ask yourself constantly, ...
John H. Cochrane. Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Verified email at stanford.edu - Homepage. Economics. Articles Cited by Co-authors. Title. ... JY Campbell, JH Cochrane. Journal of political Economy 107 (2), 205-251, 1999. 6493: 1999: Pitfalls and opportunities: what macroeconomists should know about unit roots.
There is lots of good advice on writing out there. My favourites are 1 John Cochrane (Writing Tips for PhD Students): A master technician and one of the smartest guys in the profession gives his (admittedly idiosyncratic) tips on how to write. 2 Donald McCloskey, The Writing of Economics. I read this years ago
and White's \The Element of Style",6 Halmos (1970), and John Cochrane's \Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students".7 A paper consists of the title, abstract, introduction, and the rest. The title is the shortest summary of the paper, the abstract is a short summary of the paper, and the introduction should contain the longest summary of the paper
Writing a report or a thesis is not easy. Many students (and researchers!) struggle to write texts that are easy and fun to read. In this document I give some general advice to help you on your way. More of these kind of documents are available, for example the writing tips by John Cochrane.1
John H. Cochrane NBER Working Paper No. 28513 February 2021, Revised July 2021 JEL No. G11,G12 ABSTRACT How should long-term investors form portfolios in our time-varying, multi-factor and friction-filled world? Two conceptual frameworks may help: First, look directly at the stream of payments that a portfolio and payout policy can produce.
Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students. September 2016. Authors: John Cochrane. Stanford University. To read the file of this research, you can request a copy directly from the author. Citations (1)
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Recommended by Booth faculty, this book has writing tips (style & rhetoric) for students in any field. McCloskey's The Rhetoric of Economics might also be helpful for students in Economics or a related field. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. This book takes a very practical approach to tackling dissertation work.
JOHN H. COCHRANE. RESEARCH. ALL RESEARCH, in reverse chronological order . View all RESEARCH BY CATEGORY. BOOKS. VIEW ALL. All books, book drafts, and edited volumes. NOTES. VIEW ALL. Lecture notes and essays aimed at students. ARTICLES. VIEW ALL. All academic articles and working papers. The page is subdivided by broad topic areas.
f. Writing for Social Scientists i. Becker, Howard S. Writing for social scientists: How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article. ReadHowYouWant. com, 2010. g. Writing a legal memo (only single chapter recommended, though which not mentioned) i. Bronsteen, John. Writing a Legal Memo. Foundation Press, 2006.
Writing a report or a thesis is not easy. Many students (and researchers!) struggle to write texts that are easy and fun to read. In this document I give some general advice to help you on your way. More of these kind of documents are available on the internet, for example the writing tips by John Cochrane.1 1 Structure 1.
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AND a deeper analysis in one paper makes for a very long text. Instead, you can write a first paper focusing on background and stylized facts from the data. You can then write more advanced papers going deeper on specific questions, referring to the first paper for background.
First PhD course, covers Asset Pricing Fall 2013. Empirical Asset Pricing. PhD course Business 35905 (past 35907) Winter 2011. Advanced Asset Pricing for PhDs - Business 35911/Econ 39502 Spring 2007. Readings on liquidity. Monetary Economics PhD course. Spring 2012. Writing Group Winter/Spring 2014. Stanford PhD Asset Pricing Spring 2015