Not only is our communication class learning to blog, we’re also learning the basic principles of good writing. One of the basic rules: understand the topic you’re writing about, or your writing will be confusing to yourself and your reader.So for my first research blog, I’m going to summarize something I am very familiar with: my first and only published paper titled “within-genus size distributions in angiosperms: small is better”. For almost a year, I worked alongside my supervisor – plant ecologist Dr. Lonnie Aarssen – to develop a little idea that turned into something surprising, exciting, and statistically significant.
