Writer’s Spotlight: Paul Magwene

“What I’d like to say to new graduate students rotating in my lab is: ‘What you’re really going to be doing over the next 4 – 5 years is you’re going to write a lot, so let’s focus on that.’  But I think that would scare a lot of people off.                                                                                          Recently I did focus on writing with a rotation graduate student – which I had never done before – and it worked pretty well. I had an idea for a synthesis paper that I wanted to work on and he wanted to engage at that level. He reviewed the literature that is relevant to the work he’d do if he joined my lab and, although I guided him to topics that I wanted him to think about, the project was open enough that he could explore and incorporate his ideas. It was fun!  We had a live document and co-wrote it as a team.”

Paul Magwene, Professor of Biology, Duke University


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