Research And Writing Skills

This book is designed to help you improve your research skills in just 20 short lessons of 20 minutes a day by using basic research and writing tools that you can practice at home. Each lesson is carefully designed to make researching any topic and writing a research paper manageable and easy. Every lesson teaches different skills, and if you do all the exercises, you should be able to put together a research paper from start to finish in just a few short weeks.
Although each lesson stands on its own, it’s important to follow the sequence. The lessons in this book are designed to take you through the initial phases of writing a research paper such as finding a topic, locating and evaluating your sources, framing your thesis question, and writing your paper. Because each process is dependent on the others, it is easier to follow the lessons sequentially so that your skills build on each other.

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To understand the physics of earthquakes, it is important to know what happens during individual events. Dissembling the information about the source process from the recorded seismograms is a difficult and non-unique process, as there are severe trade-offs between many of the source parameters. In this thesis we attempt to add information from frequencies not used during the initial modeling of individual events to put more constraints on the source process, to learn about specific source parameters important to the physics of earthquakes. We model earthquakes using a spectral element method for wave-propagation that accurately accounts for the Earth's 3D elastic structure. We study the rupture speed of the 2001 Kunlun, China earthquake, the continuity of slip during the 1998 Balleny Islands event and the duration of slip during the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman, Indonesia earthquake. Finally, we explore the feasibility of using adjoint methods to learn about the earthquake source.

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