Winthrop Professor
Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy
School of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Western AustraliaMail: MO89, UWA, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Advice for postgraduate research students
General tips, MS Word, writing, thesis preparation, literature reviews
Advice on handling the publication process "Prose, psychopaths and persistence" (66K)
Answering questions after presenting a seminar
Doing sensitivity analysis with computer models
A web site with some good advice about technical writing
Punctuation made simple This is a great little site that deals with most of the punctuation issues that cause trouble:
Colon | Semicolon | Comma | Apostrophe
Strangely it ignores the hyphen: one of my favourites! The Economist covers it extensively here. Particularly note their part 6: Adjectives formed from two or more words.
Another simple guide to punctuation is here.
Non-work stuff
Post-graduate students supervised
Current
Martijn van Grieken
Recent
REFLIST: Software to check research papers and theses for consistency of references
Download REFLIST (81K zip file). Unzip the file into a suitable folder and read REFLIST.TXT for user manual.
URL for this page: http://dpannell.fnas.uwa.edu.au/students.htm
Copyright © David J. Pannell, 2012
Last revised: February 05, 2012