by Andrew Mosbo, Statistics There will be many obstacles that one will encounter when writing a statistical report or article with others. Of course, some of these issues apply to any type of writing, while others will also apply when writing solo. In STAT5020W, several groups of three-to-four students must write reports by the end…
by Laura Mathews, Statistics This semester I was asked to TA for the writing-intensive capstone course for undergraduate students. This was a new experience for me, as I have not had any formal statistical writing instruction and was unsure of how to teach students how to write in a new discipline. My background is in…
by Hyunnam Ryu When I was an undergraduate student in the Statistics department, I had believed that the most critical ability as a good statistician was to develop a statistical model and draw the results. Yes, it’s important, of course! That belief persisted throughout my master’s degree. After completing my master’s degree in South Korea,…
by Ben Washington It was August of 2014. I was just beginning the first semester of my senior year at the University of Georgia. As a mathematics and statistics double major, I had managed to avoid writing for the large part of three years, a feat of which I was rather proud. A few months…