![]() ![]() Limit each paragraph to a single message.If something isn’t needed to help the reader to understand the main theme, omit it. The words, sentences, paragraphs and sections are the needlework that holds it together. This theme and these points form the single thread that runs through your piece. Decide on your paper’s theme and two or three points you want every reader to remember.While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible to preserve my original message without that punctuation mark, that word, that sentence, that paragraph or that section? Remove extra words or commas whenever you can. The following are more of McCarthy’s words of wisdom, as told by Savage and Yeh. McCarthy’s most important tip is to keep it simple while telling a coherent, compelling story. ![]() These pieces of advice were combined with thoughts from evolutionary biologist Pamela Yeh and are presented here. They worked to condense McCarthy’s advice to its most essential points so that it could be shared with everyone. While on sabbatical at the SFI during the winter of 2018, Savage had lively weekly lunches with McCarthy. Savage has received invaluable editing advice from McCarthy on several science papers published over the past 20 years. Van Savage, a theoretical biologist and ecologist, first met McCarthy in 2000, and they overlapped at the SFI for about four years while Savage was a graduate student and then a postdoc. He has helped to edit works by scientists such as Harvard University’s first tenured female theoretical physicist, Lisa Randall, and physicist Geoffrey West, who authored the popular-science book Scale. Credit: Allstar Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photoįor the past two decades, Cormac McCarthy - whose ten novels include The Road, No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian - has provided extensive editing to numerous faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico. Actor Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss in the 2007 film adaptation of No Country for Old Men, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. ![]()
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