Michelle Francl suggests that students should be trained to write in a fashion similar to how they are taught the principles and practice of NMR spectroscopy — by providing them with a limited set of patterns and parameters.
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Francl, M. The write stuff. Nature Chem 6, 555–556 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1985
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