Intro

About me

Name: Dasapta (Erwin) Irawan

Email: dasaptaerwin[at]gmail[dot]com

I tweet from @dasaptaerwin

I blog at dasaptaerwin.wordpress.com

You might find my work

at

ResearchGate

Academia

ORCID

Am I an expert?

Sadly... No

just sharing what I've learned

along the way

Hidrogeologi Umum, 2015,

Penerbit Ombak, Yogyakarta

Introduction to R for Hydrogeology, 2015, draft 2, Penerbit ITB

Menulis (ilmiah) itu Menyenangkan, 2015, eval copy,

Penerbit ITB

Why do we have to write?

Part of learning process

Examination

Exercise

Formulating ideas

Accountability

reporting research project

financial assessment

Qualification

grant competition

reputation

Personal branding

professorship

expertise/selling point

Kinds of publications

books

scientific papers (Elsevier,

Springer, etc)

conference seminar (IEEE,

EGU, etc)

blogs (Wordpress, Blogger, Medium, etc); socmed (FB, Twitter, G+, etc))

Why does it have to be a

book?

readers

heterogeneous

wide audience

contents

needs time

needs crystallization

scope

focus

mainly stating your own

stands

Books from thesis, can

we?

yes we can

it's the simplest way

what differs between

both?

readers

thesis (limited)

books (wide, heterogeneous)

How can we start?

as soon as possible

ideas evaporate

ideas get stolen

as simple as possible

reframing complex

ideas

grow from one simple

idea

as low cost as possible

use free services (mostly online):

google docs, dropbox, etc

use open source tools

Starting to write

start a writing habit

time

place

start making deadlines

doable

seminars/meeting as milestone

start from the end

(bibliography)

reflect your lit study

setting up reading

materials

start randomly

our brain basically works

in random

don't wait until it sorts

out

tweet/blog your

progress

tweet/blog your random

materials

start learning in the

process

get comments

make an online discussion

group

What are the tools?

hardware

common PC

a mug for coffee

Software

word processor: Ms Office,

LibreOffice, OpenOffice, etc

graphic processor: Photoshop,

CorelDraw, GIMP, Inkscape, etc

citation manager: EndNote, Zotero,

Mendeley, etc

web capturing/note-

taking: OneNote, Evernote, etc

Socmed platform

blog: Wordpress,

Blogger, Medium, etc

microblog: FB, Twitter,

G+, etc

What to avoid? Plagiarism.

How?

paraphrasing and quoting, even for

your own past articles

double check

in-text citations

reference sections/bibliography

use citation manager

Take home message

Don't start later, because time may

not be there for you

Don't start until it sorts out, because our brain works in

random order

How did I make these

slides:

First build a mind map of

your talk

Play around with it, move the nodes

back and forth

up and down

promote and demote

I made the mind map

with

Freemind as an desktop

app

or you can go to Mindmup site

(www.mindmup.com) for online app

On Mindmup, you can convert

the nodes to slides

And save the slides as pdf

or ppt